Featured Why Are Sinners Told to “Seek the Lord”?

Maybe you do but your posts do not give indication. Just in talking with me all you have focused on is saying what is true. You have others who seem to perceive your posts as less than caring. Maybe you do and maybe you dont but I can tell you that your response to them has only been defensive.

I stopped replying and engaging many posts because I did not want to get drug into the mud by other people similar to your posts. But I am nobody you do it as you please.

 

You obviously do not understand the nature of God. He demands holiness and obedience. Men do not want this. But He still calls them to it because his holiness demands it. This also makes them without excuse. They know the truth but do not want the truth.

 

This is not true. For the most part @Revmitchell and I get along VERY well and I would consider him a friend.

 

You say lies about salvation? We believe that whosever believes will be saved. Where is the lie?

 

To repent, and believe and to submit to Him as Lord.

 

Do you believe if God wanted to save everyone He would and could?

 

Why can both not be right?

 

So preaching saves people? Pretty sure that isn't in Scripture.

 

They don't want to, that is the point. He changes the heart/desires of the elect. There is no problem here.

 

All men are responsible to worship God.
All men are responsible to seek the True God.

Yet they do not seek Him because they are bound and love sin.

The command to repent and believe, to seek Him, is preached to all.
Once again, God uses means, preaching, teaching, prayer, to urge sinners to seek Him. Why do you not understand this?

 

God did not turn the unbeliever away, they did that themself.

This is the opening statements of John who was the "disciple who Jesus loved."

9The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. ​

So EVERY person is given the light, but what is the reaction to the light?

10He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. 11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God— 13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.​

Your answer for your question then is found in the above passage.
People turn away, it is not in their nature not to turn away. Even His own - the elect, turn away.

So, what happens? If one is to receive Him, believe on His name, and they CANNOT come by birth right, by the desire, or by the will, how then do some respond to the general call to be saved?

The answer can only be, "all the Father gives me, will come to me..."

Because, "Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

Humankind always has desired to conform God to what they think is the way it is, but God's ways and thoughts are not anywhere close to the extremely limited sight humans have been given.