(August 21, 2014 at 9:20 am)Drich Wrote: What verse in the bible makes you think God wants everyone to be saved?Wanting everyone to be saved does not mean that there would be no qualifiers. I just think that desiring that everyone find salvation, then making it so that few will (Matthew 7:14), is not sensible.
For me, if He did their would be no qualifiers at all.
1 Tim 2:3,4 "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."
In Ezekiel, there are a few verses where god states that he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, preferring instead that they turn from that path and seek salvation.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
