Let's suppose I am going on a trip. I make all the arrangements, set a date, and wait. But I also would like it to be a family excursion. I desire their company.
Is it considered a desire if I only have a strong feeling of wanting? Do I need to do anything to make my desire a desire? If I volunteer to incur all the expenses for my family does this make it a desire when before it wasn't? What if I only volunteered to pay for some family members? Does this affect whether it is a desire or lessen the desire to have the company of my family?
I ask these questions so they will be top of mind when asking the same questions about God's desire that all people are saved? Can God's desire for the salvation of people be independent of people? Does God have to do anything for people in order for His desire to be genuine? If so, does He have to act equally towards all people for His desire to be real?
I'm not attempting to offer this as proof of one set of ideas over another. It is simply to understand the nature of what is entailed in a desire and what is not. Consequently, and perhaps impossibly, I am asking for unbiased thought. I am asking that as you consider the question, you set aside, as much as is possible, how you would answer based on your other held beliefs, and consider the question independently from other doctrine.
Thanks. And I look forward to your responses.
If you look at the conclusion of the ot after the law of Moses is given and the prophets start to speak
“
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, And seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Psalm 14:2-3 KJV
“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine:
the soul that sinneth, it shall die.”
Ezekiel 18:4 KJV
“for
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 3:23 KJV
If you think about your question from that perspective it’s quite evident why Jesus had to suffer and die and how salvstion has to be accepted based upon that truth of atonement
then we see how amazing and how full of grace this statement is knowing we’re all condemned already to death because of sin
“For the Father judgeth no man, but hath
committed all judgment unto the Son: Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 5:22, 24 KJV
no longer condemned by the law that says you sinned and must die because now we have this promise which is how all men can be saved and is Gods Will for us
“And he said unto them,
Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
and baptism means this to fulfill the requirement of death for sin remember “ the soul that sins must die ?”
“Know ye not, that
so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: ( penalty for sin is paid ) that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even
so we also should walk in newness of life.”( new beginning )
Romans 6:3-4 KJV