Featured God's desire

Hence disbelief is the unforgivable sin. You won't be forgiven by God if you do not believe in the Son.

 

If God desired everyone to be saved then His will is not 100% being done.

If His perfect will is not being done, He is not the God of the Bible

 

*1 Timothy 1:12-17*

I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

*1 Timothy 2:1-7*
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

When you read the entire letter, you see the work of God in choosing people from all humanity. The context makes this obvious therefore clinging to one sentence creates false doctrines.

 

Psalms 115:3. 'But our God is in heaven; He does whatever pleases Him.'

 

That is not what God says, but it is Vanology.

It is God's will that all whom God has given to Jesus will be saved. God has chosen people from all walks, all statuses, all nations, tribes, and tongues.

God has not chosen all humans universally, and that is not what Paul is saying in 1 Timothy. We know this because of what Paul writes about himself and others in chapter 1.

 

Jon, read the verses before verse 4 and you see how Paul is using the word "all."

If you recall the letter to the Romans, you will note that Paul takes an extraordinary amount of time to breakdown the prejudice of Gentiles toward Jews and Jews toward Gentiles to show them that they are all justified by God's gift of faith to them. There is no separating line. We note that Paul never expresses a universalism. Instead Paul expresses a unity of believers from all nations, tribes, and tongues. I am not "reading that in" to 1 Timothy 2. It's right there in the verses before vs 4.

 

What about those whom God wants saved but never believe?

that means God is not perfect in every way

 

God is perfect, yet not all men are saved. This is a contradiction that is not argued well by your position.

 

You have significant contradictions in you

Where does scripture demand that you must "believe into Christ Jesus?"

Van, I am not responsible for your incapacity to allow all of scripture to interpret one sentence.
Unfortunately I see a handful of people here who cling to one sentence and create an entire doctrine from it, claiming that the one sentence (void of context) means a universal all. The problem you refuse to admit is that your Vanology therefore contradicts itself all over the place since you deny universalism yet embrace it at the same time. You work hard then to try cover up the contradictions with obfuscation.