As a non-blical person, could you just explain in simple lay terms what it meant with relation to why God created non-Christians and how He expects the bible to influence those that He knows don’t give it credence.
“As a non-blical person, could you just explain in simple lay terms what it meant with relation to why God created non-Christians and how He expects the bible to influence those that He knows don’t give it credence.”
God is the potter, we are the clay. He creates some of us for honor, some for dishonor. He, for example, hardened Pharoah’s heart. It says so in the book of Exodus, repeatedly: “And God hardened Pharoah’s heart.”
If we wish to complain against that, he asks us, who are we to complain against Him? Does the clay pot say to the potter, what are you doing? No. He does not have standing. God is sovereign.
Now, Romans 9 is not the whole Bible. God did indeed send His son to atone for our sins, and He did. The offer of salvation is indeed made to all of us.
Yet, God remains sovereign. He knows who will trust in Christ and who will not. The free offer of the gospel does not deny this truth.
It is hard for mankind to accept the sovereignty of God. We like to be in charge. But we are not.