For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people

[GISMYS15]

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

◄ 1 Timothy 2:4 ►
God=who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Ezekiel 18:23
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

(Rom. 5:8) - "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

 

[GISMYS15]

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

◄ 1 Timothy 2:4 ►
God=who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Ezekiel 18:23
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

(Rom. 5:8) - "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Calvinist false teaching==“unconditional election.” that if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved. God selects some people to be saved. Others are left to their deserved damnation. Where is God's love?
Calvinist false teaching “==unconditional election.” ==if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved no matter what they believe say or do.
Calvinist false teaching “====irresistible grace” to the elect= no matter what they believe say or do they will be saved.

 

[robustheologian]

Wow. Three posts into your tenure on the BB and you just cannot wait to display your ignorance.

Right

 

[Martin Marprelate]

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

Which translation is that? Not your own, by any chance, is it?

 

[Internet Theologian]

Calvinist false teaching==“unconditional election.” that if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved. God selects some people to be saved. Others are left to their deserved damnation. Where is God's love?

Where is God's love? It is seen in that He chose to save some. Your thoughts above lead to a logical conclusion that God must save all and/or love all for His love to be genuine. That's an incomplete and inaccurate theological conclusion; God hates the wicked; Psalm 11:5 and His wrath abides on the lost; John 3:36; Eph. 2:1-3.

Calvinist false teaching “==unconditional election.” ==if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved no matter what they believe say or do.

The above is almost pretty good, but the truth of the matter is that God does choose unconditionally to save the elect not based upon anything they've ever done, whether good or evil; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Romans 9:11-16.

Calvinist false teaching “====irresistible grace” to the elect= no matter what they believe say or do they will be saved.

No matter what they've believed, said, or have done they will be saved; John 6:37.

Why do you you strive against truth GISMYS15? 2 Corinthians 13:8. May God answer the prayer of Eph. 1 in you!

 

[GISMYS15]

Where is God's love? It is seen in that He chose to save some. Your thoughts above lead to a logical conclusion that God must save all and/or love all for His love to be genuine. That's an incomplete and inaccurate theological conclusion; God hates the wicked; Psalm 11:5 and His wrath abides on the lost; John 3:36; Eph. 2:1-3.



The above is almost pretty good, but the truth of the matter is that God does choose unconditionally to save the elect not based upon anything they've ever done, whether good or evil; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Romans 9:11-16.



No matter what they've believed, said, or have done they will be saved; John 6:37.

Why do you you strive against truth GISMYS15? 2 Corinthians 13:8. May God answer the prayer of Eph. 1 in you!

 

[GISMYS15]

PTL.==When salvation has appeared to all men, salvation was offered to all men.

The same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses ""all"" who call on him, 13 for, "“Everyone"" who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”Romans 10:12-13

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to ""all people"". Titus 2:11
The Son of Man must be lifted up,15 that ""everyone"" who believes may have eternal life in him.”

16 For God so loved the ""world"" that he gave his one and only Son, that ""whoever"" believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the ""world"", but to save the world through him. 18 ""Whoever"" believes in him is not condemned, but ""whoever"" does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
JOHN 3:15-18

God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.…Romans 5:8

◄ Acts 17:27 ►
God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.

If man will choose to == 12'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14'I will be found by you,' declares the LORD. Jeremiah 29:13

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to ""all"" people.

◄ 1 Timothy 2:4 ►
God=who wants ""all"" people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Ezekiel 18:23
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

(Rom. 5:8) - "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Yes!!! God loves ""All""!!

Calvinism is destroyed by this one little scripture== ◄ Titus 2:11 ► For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to ""all people"".

◄ Titus 2:11 ►==For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men.(NASB)==bringing salvation to ""All"" men is the same as offering salvation to all men.

 

[Martin Marprelate]

Calvinism is destroyed by this one little scripture== ◄ Titus 2:11 ► For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to ""all people"".

◄ Titus 2:11 ►==For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men.(NASB)==bringing salvation to ""All"" men is the same as offering salvation to all men.

Well first of all, bringing salvation is not at all the same as offering it.
Secondly, are you aware that Calvinists believe absolutely in the free tender of salvation to all? Have you never read any of Spurgeon's sermons where he pleads with sinners to trust in Christ?
Thirdly, do you really think that we have never read the Scriptures you have quoted? Do you really think we would say, "Golly! I never knew that was in the Bible!"

 

[Iconoclast]

Welcome to BB.....thank you for posting this cry for help.....stay around...we will help you if you are sincere....
It is clear you do not understand the teaching at all...but let's see where it goes.

Calvinist false teaching==“unconditional election.” that if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved. God selects some people to be saved. Others are left to their deserved damnation. Where is God's love?[/QUOTE]
In the Bible....God's love is only and always in His Son.......If you are apart from God's SON you are apart from God's Covenant love...
here the bible is clear...it is IN CHRIST....
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Calvinist false teaching “==unconditional election.” ==if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved no matter what they believe say or do. [/QUOTE]
No...not at all
Welcome to the scriptures my friend...take some time and look a second time;
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?


2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Calvinist false teaching “====irresistible grace” to the elect= no matter what they believe say or do they will be saved.

If you want to learn the truth start here;
http://vor.org/truth/1689/1689bc00.html

Look at how the Calvinist Paul spoke of it;
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works

 

[Revmitchell]

The author has been banned.

 

[thatbrian]

 

[thatbrian]

When salvation has appeared to all men, salvation was offered to all men.

What about the millions who never heard the gospel? Generations upon generations of people lived and died without being "offered" salvation. How do you say then that God wants all men to be saved?

 

[tyndale1946]

Calvinist false teaching==“unconditional election.” that if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved. God selects some people to be saved. Others are left to their deserved damnation. Where is God's love?
Calvinist false teaching “==unconditional election.” ==if a person comes to Christ and is saved it is because he or she was chosen by God to be saved no matter what they believe say or do.
Calvinist false teaching “====irresistible grace” to the elect= no matter what they believe say or do they will be saved.

Maybe if you read this it will clear up your misconception?... You could give it a try... What ya say?... It's on the internet and it's free!... Brother Glen

God’s Operations
of Grace But No
Offers of Grace
TO WHICH ARE ADDED TWO TREATISES ON INVITING
AND EXHORTING SINNERS TO COME TO CHRIST
Wherein the doctrines of Invitations and Offers are Stated and
Compared with the Glory of Free Grace
By Joseph Hussey
Cambridge, England (1659-1726)
ABRIDGED EDITION

 

[Martin Marprelate]

God’s Operations
of Grace But No
Offers of Grace

By Joseph Hussey

Er.......I don't think Joseph Hussey is the best example of a Calvinist you could find. He was more than a little bit hyper. Stick with Spurgeon:

The greatest missionaries that have ever lived have believed in God's choice of them; and instead of this doctrine leading to inaction, it has been an irresistible motive power and so it will be again. It was the secret energy of the Reformation. It is because Free Grace has been put into the background that we have seen so little done in many places.
It is in God's hand the great force that can stir the Church of God to its utmost depth. It may not work superficial revivals, but for deep work it is invaluable. Side by side with the blood of Christ it is the world's hope. How can men say that the doctrine of distinguishing grace makes men careless about souls? Did they never hear of the evangelical band which was called the Clapham Sect? Was Whitefield a man who cared nothing for the salvation of people? He who flew like a seraph throughout England and America unceasingly proclaiming the grace of God, was he selfish? Yet he was distinctly a free-grace preacher. Did Jonathan Edwards have no concern for the souls of others? Oh, how he wept, and cried, and warned them of the wrath to come! Time would fail me to tell of the lovers of men who have been lovers of this truth.

 

[tyndale1946]

Er.......I don't think Joseph Hussey is the best example of a Calvinist you could find. He was more than a little bit hyper. Stick with Spurgeon:

Spurgeon is good too!... Brother Glen

 

[BrotherJoseph]

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

◄ 1 Timothy 2:4 ►
God=who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Ezekiel 18:23
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

(Rom. 5:8) - "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

This is the correct version of Titus 2:11 from the King James and the word offering is nowhere to be found, "11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men," (Titus 2:11). The sure effect of the cause of grace of God on an individual is that it "bringeth salatvation", yet we know not "all men" have salvation, therefore one must conclude the "all men" is actually all of the elect throughout the world. The cause and effect relationship seen in this verse between grace and salvation actually disproves your assertion of universal atonement.

 

[Browner]

Sure, God's grace (unmerited favor) has been offered to all people.
And God sees whose hearts are acceptable to proceed further, i.e.
He doesn't waste His time with those whose hearts He sees
as being hopeless.
And His grace continues with those who are obedient to His wishes.
Today's idea of grace is incorrect ...
it has nothing to do with a free ride to heaven!
God's grace is simply the chance to get to be with Him in heaven.
Check the condition of today's Laodicean church ... it's in Revelation 3.
Corrupt, ridiculous, disgusting.
But, you can get with God's program ... it's not too late!

 

[BrotherJoseph]

Sure, God's grace (unmerited favor) has been offered to all people.
And God sees whose hearts are acceptable to proceed further, i.e.
He doesn't waste His time with those whose hearts He sees
as being hopeless.

When God checks the condition of men's hearts what does he see? "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?' (Jeremiah 17:9) and "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 16:5). As far as I know, everyone receives the same nature and heart that they inherit from their father Adam who fell into sin and is the father of us all as were in him genetically during the fall, this is why scripture declares plainly, "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one" (Romans 3:12). The solution? God is in the business of giving heart transplants. "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:" (Ezekiel 11:19). Notice God does this on his own, man's will is nowhere found in the passage.


Also, the word "offered" in regards to salvation is not in the Bible, nor is the word "invitation", and when the word "accept" is used only referring to Jesus accepting his elect based on His work, not us accepting Him, "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved" (Ephesians 1:6) Indeed the salvation of the Bible is contrary to that which natural man has invented to glorify human will and the flesh.

 

[heisrisen]

Yes God wills that NONE perish but that ALL would come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
1 Timothy 1:15- Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners....
1 Timothy 2:6- Who gave himself a ransom for ALL...
1 Timothy 4:10- ..we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of ALL men, specially of those that believe.

 

[BrotherJoseph]

Yes God wills that NONE perish but that ALL would come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9).

This verse you quoted must be interpreted in the light of the whole Bible. Was "all" here meaning all human being who ever lived? If so, the Bible is then full of contradictions because Peter tells us earlier in his writings of men , " which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed" (1 Peter 2:8), Paul tells us of, "21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonor?22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction", Job tells us of the wicked who are " reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath." (Job 21:3), and finally Proverbs declares, ,"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil" (Proverbs 16:4). Therefore, in view of these passages and others elsewhere throughout the Bible Peter must mean when h e says "God wills that none perish" that none of the elect perish. Further, if one were to argue that he meant all men, not just the elect, how does this square with the verse in Ephesians that says, "according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" (Ephesians 1:11)? If God works everything after the counsel of "his own will" and His will was that none in history perish, but some do, then Ephesians 1:11 would be false as it didn't work out as God planned it in 2: Peter 3:9 to save everyone. This is another reason your interpretation falls short of the actual meaning of the passage.