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Are you saying that all humanity has been given the gift of faith, but only those who use it go to heaven?
I'm saying what I said.
Did Jesus purchase all humanity and then fail to bring his purchase home?
If your wife pours you a glass of wine, but you don't drink it, does that prove she actually never poured the wine? If I buy you a ticket for a first-class plane ticket to Hawaii and you never use it, do you get to Hawaii? If not, does that prove I never bought the ticket but lied to you? Your whole silly question simply depends on the premise that faith is irrelevant in justification (a common Calvinist problem). AND your epistemology is a complete repudiation of Sola Scriptura since you have NOT ONE VERSE that states that you do and SO MANY verbatim exactly the opposite, you simply have accepted an epistemology that if self asks a question and self answers it, God is mandated to agree with self.
We have given the Scriptures. They flat out, verbatim, clearly contradict this horrible invention of a few latter-day radical Calvinists - and that's obvious. And you have NOTHING, not one Scripture that states Jesus died NOT for all but for ONLY some. All you have is 1) A repudiation of Sola Gratia - Solus Christus - SOLA FIDE and 2) The insistence that your silly question - founded on your rejection of faith in justification - must be answered in a way accepted to you 3) The need to spin SO many, so very many, Scriptures so that they 'mean" the opposite ofwhat they say. Ah, by that rubic, every heresy and absurdity under the sun is true.
Can I answer every question that Pelagus or Arius or Jospeh Smith may have? Maybe not. But I can STATE what God does? And I have. I stand with Scripture. And with 1500 years of universal faith until a tiny few, latter-day, radical Calvinists invented this horrible opinion - and after 500 years, still can't fine ANY Scripture that states it and must "spin" SO, SO many Scriptures 180 degrees opposite of what they verbatim state. And left Calvinists with this horrible idea that they can have no clue as to whether they are saved. No wonder every Calvinist personally known to me has repudiated this horrible, so very unbiblical and unchristian theory. PERHAPS.... if you will but accept what Scripture says (rather than a tiny hand full of radical, latter-day Calvinists), accept Scripture rather than perpetually asking questions based on false premises.... maybe you'll be among them. I hope so. What God says is true.... regardless of what happens with your false questions based on false presumptions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSAfmvRKIVU&t=265s
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