Featured Has ALL Humanity Been Given a Measure of Faith?

I am questioning you

 

Faith from God has both substance and evidence. Such faith empowers the believer to walk in the Spirit resist the devil, and boldly approach the throne of Grace.

This measure of faith from God is also of sufficient substance that the evidence of work can be seen as James discusses.

IMO, These are not two separate faiths, but a single endowment given to believers as is recorded in John 1, “to them gave He the right (ἐξουσίαν - power, capacity, authority, …) to become the children of God”

Without this God given authority, there would be no salvation, and in my own opinion, is is that endowment of faith.

“For we are His workmanship…”

 

what is the Gospel? Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:

Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importancea: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures

So, the Gospel, or Good News, is "that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures", and by receiving this, a sinner is saved.

If God wants the whole world, that is, every single person, to hear this Good News, then this must mean that God has made provision for the sins of the whole world, without exception, in the Death of Jesus Christ! We cannot tell the whole world, that we have Good News for them, "that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures", and then say that, sorry, this is not available for ALL, as Jesus actually came to die for an save only the elect! This is not Good News, but BAD NEWS!!! And also very cruel.

 

God does not tell us why, because what you suggest is not from God in the first place, and at odds with the Teaching of the Holy Bible. What you say is "theology", but this is not Biblical theology, but rather that of the Reformed/Calvinists.

 

I too can provide multiple verses from the Bible to refute what you say. However neither of us will change because of what we believe. Only one of us can be right.

 

Paul ask in the opening of Romans concerning a part of this teaching.

3What if some did not have faith?
Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar.

As it is written:
“So that You may be proved right when You speak
and victorious when You judge.”

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us?
I am speaking in human terms.
6Certainly not!
In that case, how could God judge the world?
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Ultimately, (imo) part of the resolution to this conflict must resolve to what gives God the glory?

For the whole matter of salvation be in His purpose, or to present a hopeful God in which salvation is left up to failed humanity in which everyone has already purposely chose to rebel.

When after a thousand years of Christ ruling this earth and Satin is turned loose only a few months, do the people rally to the Christ? No, just as in the beginning and in every situation, humans rebel.

Paul goes on in Romans to show the effects of rebellion.

 

as long as we are open to being taught by the Holy Spirit, His Truth.

 

Personally, I wouldn't know if it's "Reformed / Calvinist" theology or not,
as I had never studied the works of John Calvin or the Reformers before I started seeing this for myself in the Bible during my own private studies.

Having grown up in an Independent Baptist church from the age of 12 when I first believed the Gospel in 1978 through the preaching of God's word,
attending a Baptist Christian school for over 2 years in high school, was involved in AWANA and other activities as a teenager,
and was part of other Independent Fundamental Baptist circles for well over 25 years,
I still came to all of this apart from ( and in spite of ) what I was taught in and by those places.

In other words, just because you consider it as not being from God in the first place ( or that you do not see it in the Bible for yourself ),
does not mean that there aren't other people that do.

SBG, with all due respect to you,
declaring over and over that "it's not in the Bible" is denying that someone can actually read the Bible for themselves and come up with it for themselves, exactly as I have over the last 18+ years.
Like any other doctrine that is held by people ( whether in error or in truth ),
people can and do read His word and come up with understandings that are genuinely arrived at through no outside assistance.

For example,
I've seen many come to agree with "Wesleyanism" and loss of salvation... others, "Traditionalism" ...
and a very few I've met in my own area have even been convinced of what is commonly called "Calvinism"...
All through their own, private studies in His word.

I assure you, repeating the statement that "it's not Biblical" or that it's "at odds with the teachings of the Holy Bible" over and over,
does not do away with the fact that there actually are those who embrace what you see as "Calvinism" as the truth, my friend...

and they did so because they were convinced of it through the Scriptures,
not because they were coerced into it by peer pressure or lured into it through influential teachers.