Look I am trying to gain understanding here your not mak8ing much sense to me you use this one verse but only in that one translation which would imply that he would save all those those who he would save that he alone decides and in a way this true because he was very clear he desires all to be saved but you are just using that one translation disregarding the fact that everyone other translation doesn't use that word in the way that your trying to use it and the fact you cannot see this problem just says that you are willing to use a verse as long as it fits your narrative your not even willing to consider how the word is used in other translations or even the fact that if we were to look at it in the original language it was written even I do not how profound that would but it would be a game changer
I do not say or ask anything of you if not for the sole purpose of trying to better understand where you are coming from I am in this to prove or disprove anything our own views and understand clearly do not mix well so I am trying to first understand exactly where you are coming from what your view and understanding on salvation I could have easily acted like I was right and you were wrong but I specifally asked you and your response was I was playing dumb
While anyone else for the most part would not be willing to place themselves as being playing dumb most other people would be so focused on who is right and wrong who has the truth who doesn't but I am still trying to understand where I hope your not coming from I have a good idea on your stance but I am trying to make some kind of understanding here not the usual arguing and useless debating I am trying to fully understand what your saying I am not dismissing it I am bot using scripture to oppose you I am a very open book with me what you see is what what you get even if I am in the wrong I find it stupid to hide my intentions or meanings behind things when everyone shows who they really are online becuase the protection of non direct screen only thing allows people and almost 100 percent if someone says something online that is pretty much their heart
So I am being open and honest here I am willing to be seen as foolish if need be but I am not here to play games I am not here to prove or disprove what I see as truth or what others do I am here to actually learn to grow to build encourage to plant the seeds of the kingdom no matter how small
But if you just keep avoiding my question when most others would rebuke or reject your stance or anything you said I am here not trying to prove I am right not trying to disprove you I am literally one of the rare few who just give up their argument and instead try to first understand the person they are debating with
Your being given something rare here I am wanting to know exactly your stance your understanding your view why you believe it ect.
Maybe I disagree with that doesn't make you or me wrong it just meaNS THERE IS CLEARLY A UNITY needed IN THE TRUTH THE SPIRIT AND THE HEART OF god and us. also I apologize for the caps my eyes are really bad today.
Regardless I ask you if you believe there is a choice or not if some were chosen and predestined to be saved while everyone else is left in the dust basically predestination pre chosen to not only be save but reign with Christ because believe being saved is no minor thing the gravity of it the the gravity of the absolute nightmare of the cost of being left out or refusing it it isn't a matter to discussed or debated without having full revereance of how important and how impactful it is.
I don't know how many who have said they have been to heaven or hell but I know I myself have had glimpses of heaven but even though I saved I have actually been to hell it is a real place you wouldn't even know you were in the spiritual realm because it is that real.
People on hell people talk about it and to many it is more of a subject topic or idea they have no idea the true gravity and real seriousness of the lost and saved how absolute heart breaking and how you cannot help but weep so intensely for those bound in hell how you wish so badly that you could just by simply desiring it make it where such people could finally have rest and simply be in his arms simply be loved and filled with him simply because they are them
But even so I am not naive enough to believe that hell is not real or eternal even though I wish more than anything I am wrong I even to this day pray for one soul I met there who was truly repentant he just sat there and took everything saying he deserved it.
You cannot imagine what it is like to see that how it will absolute shatter you breaking heart sadness these things don't even begin to describe it.
So this isnt trivial me this isn't merely a topic or subject to me this is not a game and I am dead serious about this there is a reason I am for the kingdom for bringing others closer to Christ for bringing others to the truth for the church even if I in the process mess up or speak wrong
I am not here to argueor prove or disprove and any doctrine people mught have that they wantr argue is not even on the radar how can we discuss and debate salvation without understanding the gravity of which we speak the cost of it I mean the really really impossibly mind bending cost[/QUOTE]
Im going to let this go, you cant answer a simple question that relates to Gods will, desire to save as indicated here 1 Tim 2:4
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.