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

I pray daily for His will to be done.

That is a most excellent prayer.

1 Timothy 2:4 teaches that all men are without excuse concerning unbelief in Christ as their Lord and Savior. While God is all-knowing, and predestines whom he will, mere men, of course, do not foreknow their own fate. Men do, however, have the benefit of God revealing himself in his Word, which reveals truth, and exhorts them to have faith in Christ. Thus men literally "have a shot" at hearing, studying and believing the Word of God, and if they reject Christ, they have no excuse before God.

The Bible clearly states, throughout, that not all will be saved.

The Bible is filled with instances of people who are damned, it consistently teaches that the wicked are not saved and are destined for hell and damnation; even four verses before the one you quoted:

1 Timothy 1

"19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme."

In our modern America, for generations, we have been lied to, we have been "sold on" a "kinder, gentler" Christian faith, where everyone goes to heaven, even murderers, idolators, rapists, etc.

Why do we fall for this lie ?

We as a nation, and our forefathers, even from other nations, failed to read our dusty Bibles for ourselves, and failed to honestly study and learn the Word of God. Many of us were led astray by preachers of false doctrine and corrupt churches. We came to have wrong doctrine on many points, some very subtle, but still very fundamental to an honest understanding of the whole counsel of God.

Once we have wrong doctrine, we will then fall for all sorts of evil schemes, even believing that sins are not sins, or that God has no penalties for sin.

Why do we see so many millions of people not seeing a need for themselves to throw themselves at Christ's feet ? If many, many, false Christian teachers spread the idea that everyone is going to heaven and will be saved by Christ, bar none, no matter what they do or say, well, why would they bother listening any more ? False Christian teachers have told them that as far as Christianity is concerned, they're saved even if they oppose Christianity, so God's law can be safely flouted.

They will have no excuse before God, because even the briefest of Bible study reveals to the honest reader that God will not be so mocked.

Come to think of it, I will try to post a short commentary on "Love your enemies", which is vastly misunderstood, to the detriment of many souls.