To: rwfromkansas
Explain how that means something other than what he said.
To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Check out the NT. "All" doesn't always mean every single person in the whole world. Context.
In these common passages you quoted (I have heard objections raised with them 100 times so the objection is quite standard for Arminians), the context is limited to the elect, as Jesus is talking to them. He doesn't want any of the elect to perish.
As for another common verse, which I think is in 2 Timothy, where God says he desires all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, the all is clearly "all types of men," because right before that, people are urged to pray for "kings and all who are in authority," not just poor people or Jews etc.
The elect is clearly a Biblical concept or Paul would not have used the word multiple times.
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05/12/2003 1:41:28 PM PDT by
rwfromkansas
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