Scripture never indicates the message is only intended for the elect, but clearly teaches it is intended for the whole world, "every creature." There is no good reason to presume, as you have done,
not at all
that this powerful appeal sent from God Himself is somehow insufficient to lead a lost man to be reconciled.
you are avoiding the real issue...
26But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
or again;
43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
I assume your term "off the hook" is equal to Paul's term "without excuse" in Romans 1, right? If so, you must look at the reason they are not "off the hook." Why are these people "without excuse."
It is because they "knew God," yet Calvinism says they can't know God.
It is because they "clearly saw," yet Calvinism says they are born blind.
It is because they "understood," yet Calvinism says they are born without the ability to understand.
This is the second thread that you repeat your wrong use of romans 1 trying to twist it to make it fit your mis-guided idea.
Calvinism takes all the reasons these people are not "off the hook" away and as a result gives a perfect excuse for every man who is finally condemned: "I was born unable to see, understand and thus know God and wasn't elected so as to be given that ability, that is my excuse." A perfect excuse by any rational an unbiased observer.
Not at all.....all are responsible ,and condemned as we speak unless they repent. Your caricature of calvinism is why you will not come to truth on this.
Sure we do. God elected to send the message of reconciliation first the Jews and then to the Gentiles.
This also was refuted already.....you do not believe persons before Israel had their sins accounted to them...but you are still mistaken about that.
As Paul explained, he grafted in the Gentiles after the Jews were cut off. It has been God's purpose from the beginning to provide redemption for all mankind.