My Christian friend asked me this question :" If God loves all humanity and Jesus died for all - WHY will not all be saved?"
Then, he proceeded to explain, HOW to solve the problem, by concluding that Jesus did not die for all - but only for the elect. He tried to convince me that "all" does not really mean all but "some".
THE PROBLEM with this kind of Theological approach is the wrong question being asked. or shall we say an obviously wrong starting point.
If we start our theology with the WHY and HOW - by all means it will bring lot more whys and hows until we really get confused.
THE SOLUTION is to have a proper starting point of a theology - by asking WHO?
Who is Jesus Christ? He is the complete revelation of who God really is...
Instead of forming conclusions based from logical deductions and weird interpretations - we must look to Jesus who revealed the Father who so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son...
We must look to Jesus who is both God and Man. His birth, life, death , resurrection and ascension is primarily for humanity..
If we start our Theology with WHO - we will fully understand WHO is God and WHO we are in Him.
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