Very few pastors/churches preach about and what is the Hell that the majority of people will be for eternity....with no way out. It is sad that they don't for in its place they teach a gospel to make people feel good / following instead their world views. Not good at all.
You won't get any argument from me.
All love.
No justice.
see below, I have given you all the verses for the doctrines of election.
I hate carpet bombing.
Besides the fact that there are no verses that teach predestinaton of individuals.
Predestination IS in the scriptures...but it always is addressed to HOW to be saved or for PURPOSE.
Maybe you could pick out a couple and we could take a look?
Or not.
Your choice.
You didn't reply to my question...
I had asked HOW could God be a merciful God
IF He's only merciful to some?
Isn't a merciful person so inclined toward everyone?
The bible teaches that God is merciful:
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
God is rich in mercy.
He loved us even when we were dead in our sins.
Luke 6:36
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
This is because God made us in His image.
Genesis 1:27
We have many of His attributes.
If He were not merciful, He would have ended it with the flood or when we are born...Why bring in "death in sins" to a world already full of them.
We don't know why God created the universe, or us, or why He upholds the universe.
We just know that He does and that He loves His creation.
Matthew 5:43-47
43“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’
44“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47“If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
God bestowed us with love, because He IS love...
1 John 4:8
Jesus taught us to love everyone,,,just as God loves everyone.
I believe in Divine Sovereignty over all things.
All Christians believe in God's sovereignty.
Do you love GOD? I ask a son-in-law that once and His answer: We got to do that as well?
what would your answer be......My answer is :I love God because He loved me first long before I could love Him.
I love God because He saved me.
What...would be an interesting thread.
We get saved from what we require saving.
(besides our soul).
He gives you rain, air to breath, the very next heart beat....and so on.....you owe Him everything that counts.
If one can not come to believe (in a lifetime on earth) in Him and His Word(s) completely, then His mercy will stop after that individuals life on earth ends.
How does one come to believe?
It is funny, that you are talking about being a member of His Church yet worried about not receiving the saving Grace. How can you be both....The right answer is : One cannot!
Of course, I am not saying the unbeliever is not going to get God's Grace, But they are HIS WORDS. Please pass the article below around,,,people need to know!
How could the unbeliever not get God's grace??
You just posted that it rains on everyone...God upholds the universe for everyone.
How does a person get saved without God's grace?
While we were STILL SINNERS God saved us.
Without grace no one could be saved.
I have done that....Naahhh....only the non-believers see GOD as "NOT LOVING,
NOT MERCIFUL, NOT JUST "
I was not referring to non-believers.
They don't care about God.
I was referring to the reformed...
they are the ones that change God's nature and character into a God
that is unloving, unmerciful and unjust.
I'm not sure you're reformed.
His love, mercy is extended to all those believing with the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ from before the foundations of the earth... Justice will be served on the unbelieving in a future White Throne Judgement
Right. Everyone who believes will be saved/or, is saved upon believing.
From before the foundation of the earth?
Yes. God foreknows who will be saved...
and man chooses whether or not he wishes to believe in God.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Faith saves.
He is to draw near to God and believe that He exists and God rewards those that seek Him.
Those who doubt(ed), curse(d), hate(d) and (ed) for past and present unbelievers. Future unbelievers is what I believe we are speaking of, right? Or at least I pray and hope so!
I think you're saying that unbelievers will not be spending time with God.
Agreed.