“How can God choose some and not all?” A Baptist pastor has attempted to answer this age-old question of salvation.
Clint Archer, who pastors Hillcrest Baptist Church in Durban, South Africa, which is an Evangelical Reformed Baptist Church, said the question has come up when discussing the topic of salvation.
Some believe it’s “unfair for those not chosen” and that those who are chosen seem like “robots without free will, and that takes away our responsibility and lays it squarely on God,” some would tell him.
Archer pointed to several important Bible verses on his blog earlier this week, such as 1 Timothy 2:3-4, which reads “… God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
At the same time, the words of the apostle Paul in Romans 9:20-23 suggest that God makes “vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,” he noted.
Seeking to explain how it is accurate to say that God “desires all to be saved,” he positioned that God does not always get what He wants.
“God states that he desires for you not to gossip, lust, covet, be impatient, lose your temper, be discontent with your finances, etc. God expresses His will that people abstain from immorality, love their neighbor as themselves, and love Him with all their…
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