What is it about "No one" you don't understand?
What is it about "all" that you don't understand?
This is a universal truth and here you are, Van, trying to hide behind the idea that God didn't say "ever." That is just laugh out loud funny.
*Romans 3:9-18,20*
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
God must have a different understanding of whether man can turn to Him in faith.
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
Rom 3:22
even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
Rom 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24
being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
Rom 3:26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness,
that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Rom 3:29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
Rom 3:30 since
there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
Sure seems to be a lot of people that have put their faith in Christ Jesus for salvation.
And how do they come to trust in Christ.
Rom 10:17 So then
faith comes by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.
And God does not put the restriction on those that can come to him as you do Austin
Rom 10:13 For "
WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED."
Which was pointed out to us by a reliable source, Christ Jesus.
Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Joh 3:15 that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
Now you may be wondering why Christ said that whoever believes can be saved
? Well He gave us the answer
.
Joh 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
And He even told us that man had to make that choice to believe or not to believe.
Joh 3:18 "
He who believes in Him is not condemned; but
he who does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Now you may be wondering what they are to believe for salvation.
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Eph 1:13
In Him you also trusted,
after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also,
having believed,
you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
