If Jesus Christ died for ALL men, why are not ALL men going to Heaven?...
Jesus Christ did not say all men are going to heaven. All men that he saves from sin are not going to heaven. Every person that are left on the earth when he establishes his rule on the earth will be saved and enter into his kingdom (except a man is born again he cannot enter into the kingdom of God, he said) All rebels will be purged by the fires of the day of the LORD judgements, called the great tribulation. The church of Jesus Christ along with the resurrected saints of other ages will occupy the heavenly city. Here is an except from a prophetic view of these things;
Ps 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
He said to many your're of your Father the devil...
He did not say that to you. He said that to the devil possessed rulers of Israel, who had made a conscious and clear decision to oppose Jesus Christ after he had taken 3 1/2 years to cast all the devils out of Israel. They came back after it was cleansed and brought more devils with them and the last state was worse than the first. In other words, they pitched in with Satan and he led them. See ex 6 and see that God sees Israel collectively as one man, his firstborn son.
He didn't say now if you believe, believing in me will put you there...
This is a failure to think. What do you think Jesus had been doing for 3 1/2 years in Israel. His fame went everywhere and everone knew about him. Besides, the word of God was posted on the cross of Jesus. This is Jesus of Nazereth; The King of the Jews.
Why is there no mention of the second thief on the cross?... What is his fate?... Or is that speculation?...
Are you admitting here that you have never read the account of the crucifixion when both these men railed against Jesus. The one who repented and believed was justified and the other died as a sinner. Why? because God willed it? No. Because the thief willed it.
God is quoted saying, It is not my will that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But you don't believe that. You could believe it but you will not believe it.There are many statements in the scripture that you do not believe as written. It is your choice every time whether you believe them. You Calvinists say you do not have a will and yet you exercise unbelief over and over on these forums, proving you do not believe what you teach.
We do know one thing, ALL that the Father gave to the Son to save WILL be saved... If not than Jesus Christ is a failure and he wouldn't be raised from the dead...
That is the worst reasoning imaginable. That is your gospel, it is not the true gospel. God was reconciled to the whole world and Jesus Christ died for the whole world. God said he would receive any sinner who will come to him in the name of Jesus Christ he will save. To teach that God sent his Son to die for sinners to prove that he has not been reconciled to all sinners by not saving them is a doctrine that God did not think of and present to us.
And like The Apostle Paul said if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain and you are still in your sins...
Those people who has vain faith are those who marginalize the gospel of Christ. In this case they believe in the death and the burial of Christ, saying they believe in Christ, but they do not believe in the resurrection. This will not get them saved. One must believe the gospel as God gives it.
1 Cor 15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
And if we go by what we've done (merit) instead of grace (what he's done alone), we rob the Godhead of its Glory..
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I have read yours and others stuff on these forums for a long time and one thing I am absolutely sure of and that is the fact that you can not give a biblical definition of gace and how God applies it and what is his purpose in it if you are given 6 months to do it.You Reformed believers pervert the doctrine of grace and give it a non biblical meaning. We are heading for a period of time that is predetermined by God when there will be no grace on this earth while he destroys sinners out of it. Jesus said it will be a time like has never been before on this earth (and he included the judgement of the flood) and never shall be again.
There will be a numberless multitude in Heaven, not the selected few... Children of God, by the Sovereign Will of God... Read Revelation 7:9-10, put there by God's Love, Mercy and Grace, the death of pride...
God has not presented his will as sovereign in the matter of salvation of a man. You guys have made this up.
The word sovereign is not in the KJV Bible and it is in very few modern translations. God deals with men providentially. He raised up Pharoah of Egypt during the days of Moses not to sovereignly make Pharoah withstand Moses and the children of Israel, but because in his omniscience and his omnipresence, knew that he would. This was his will in teaching his people and the world about himself but the decision to do what he did was certainly Pharoah's own decision.He will have to give account of himself and his actions someday.
I think you have bought into some errant and wrong doctrines and I hope you will consider my arguments here. Our Lord is glorified by our simple belief in the truth.