Election and Predestination (in Christ)
Last week we looked at the non-rivalrous, non-competitive posture the church is to have to the world. The church is called to be for the world not against it.
In 1 Timothy 2:1—5 Paul says that there is one mediator, Jesus Christ, who died for the entire world, and it is through this mediator that the church is called to make petitions, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving for all people. Why? Because “God wills that all people be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.”
But this focus on the universality of God’s desire for all people to be saved seems to bump up against another idea…
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