1 Timothy 2:4
4 Who [hos] will have [thelo] all [pas] men [anthropos] to be saved, [sozo] and [kai] to come [erchomai] unto [eis] the knowledge [epignosis] of the truth. [aletheia] KJV-Interlinear
4 who desires
all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. NASB
God desires for
everyone to be saved, however, God does not coerce or force anyone to believe
in Him.This is an optional belief for
everyone, however, God does make sure that everyone who comes to the decision
point of believing or not, knows the repercussions of both decisions.
To believe in Christ,
means an eternal life in heaven.To
reject Christ means eternal condemnation in the Lake of Fire.
God is the glue that
holds all things together, the infinite resource that sustains and supplies all
needs.
To reject Christ and to
choose a life without God, means to reject any power
that holds your existence, your environment, together. To reject Christ means to reject forever,
everything that would be needed for ones eternal existence.
Therefore, rejecting
Christ means that the unbeliever will be in a place separated from all
resources and all sustaining power, and is on ones
own.The magnitude of that kind of existence
is beyond ones ability to understand, apart from the
descriptions given in the Bible. The descriptions of the Lake of Fire are not
good, and horrendously horrible and worse.
Since we can be alone
in this life, we do not realize that we are not really alone, not really
unsupported.For all around us is our
environment, buildings, floors, ceilings, air, food, sounds, colors, etc.,
etc., etc.But when you remove all of
these things, then you are totally alone with absolutely nothing to hold your
existence together.
God is good to all, and
His mercies are over all His works, Psa. 145:8-9. There are mercies from God for everyone. They
are not excluded to believers only.
However there are many forms of mercy, and the more advanced forms
accompanied with blessings, belong to believers only, for obvious reasons. Family always receives priority treatment
over strangers who refuse to join the family.
God as savior appears
in several passages, 2 Sam 22:3; Psa 106:21; Isa
43:3,11, Isa 45:22-23, 1 Tim. 1:1; 4:10; Titus 1:3; 2:10; 3:4.
Gods saving character
is made manifest through Jesus Christ, 1 Tim. 2:5-6; 2 Tim 1:10; Titus 1:4;
2:13; 3:6.
God is the savior of
all men in that He provided the means of salvation for everyone (temporal
salvation), but His saving grace becomes a reality for those who actually
believe in Christ (eternal salvation), 1 Tim 4:10.
People just have to
repent (change their minds from their rejection mode) and believe, Isa 55:1, Ezek
18:23,32, Ezek
33:11, 2 Peter 3:9.
Jesus Christ is God, and
there is no other deity.All other
religions ignore or mis-state this truth.
Isa. 45:22-23
22 "Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God,
and there is no other.
However, salvation is
not the sum total of Gods plan for the individual. After salvation, one must grow up and become
an adult in order to enjoy the full riches of ones
life.And that is incorporated in the
word for knowledge, epignosis, which means possessed knowledge, or wisdom.
Gnosis, is the knowledge
of details, but epignosis, is knowledge mastered and at the command of the
one possessing it.The spiritually
mature believer has epignosis, in his soul, wisdom, 2 Tim 2:25; 3:7; Titus
1:1.
Approval is obtained
from God through your daily study of Bible doctrine, Study to show thyself
approved [mature], 2 Tim. 2:15.
God desires for
everyone to be saved and to be grown up to their fullest completeness in life that
is possible.
The only thing that
stands in the way of your not attaining the best life possible,
is your daily decision to not study.
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