I read your explaination on predestination. Below is my quick paraphrase of how I understand your teaching on this topic: False doctrines teach: Predestination is God choosing people arbitrarily that he wants to save. Biblical doctrine teaches: God saves ALL people who comply with God’s “conditions” for grace & mercy. These are general summaries to what I got from your website. My question on this topic is: If salvation is based on the Biblical doctrine as you described above, (salvation is extended to all those who “COMPLY” with God’s conditions (repentence, confession, baptism, obedience, etc.), then all the billions of people in remote areas of the world who never heard about God, the Bible, never have the OPPORTUNITY to “COMPLY” with God’s conditions, and therefore are doomed because they happend to live in Africa, or the Rain Forrest, etc. where KJV Christianity is not taught? In other words, if salvation is based on man “complying” with God’s conditions, then those who live in coutries where the word is never taught never hava a chance for salvation. We don’t choose our parents, or where we are born, or what country we will be born in, millons before internet, radio, etc… never had a shot at being saved based on “complying” to God’s conditions. Therefore, seeing you don’t choose what country you are born in, woulddn’t that mean that God DOES/DID arbitrarily decide who would hear the word and comply vs. those who would never hear God’s word and would die in their sins?
First, that people who do not obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ are lost is clearly taught in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9. If it were not so, then there was no need for Jesus Christ to die the cruel death on the cross of Calvary for us; the fact that all mankind was lost already is the very reason that the Father sent the Son, because all mankind needed a Savior (John 3:16).
Second, mankind—not God—is responsible for man’s sin problem (Isaiah 59:1-3; Romans 3:10, 23). God, though, through Jesus Christ does provide a solution to man’s sin problem (Mark 16:16). The solution to man’s sin problem is available to anyone on earth, irrespective of race or gender (Romans 1:16; Galatians 3:26-29).
Third, that the one God of the universe exists and is all powerful is discernible from observation of the created world (Romans 1:19-20; Psalm 8:3; 19:9). As surely as Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary or a jumbo passenger jet had a creator (rather than resulting from random accident, such as an explosion), everything in this world and the planets and the universe, too, had a Creator.
Fourth, once aware from general revelation in the created universe that God exists, one has the responsiblity to seek specific revelation from our Creator God (Isaiah 40:26). By inspiration, the apostle Paul wrote that mankind is “without excuse” (Romans 1:20). Consequently, the example of Cornelius is heartening, and is the only biblical example of God responding to a prayer prayed by someone who is not his spiritual child (Acts 10:1-4); Acts chapters 10 and 11 unfold the opportunity presented to Cornelius to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ in answer to his prayers. The providence of God (Romans 8:28) works behind the scenes to fulfill the purpose of God, in the case of Cornelius, providing him opportunity, in response to his prayers, to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Fifth, we are no more in a position than was Job of old to second guess God or dispute the biblical declaration that God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 3:25; 1 Peter 1:17).
Sixth, we who live parts of the world where there exists greater opportunity, or in a period of time during which greater opportunities exist, to hear the Gospel or study God’s Word have greater responsibility: (1) to apply that biblical instruction to our own lives, and (2) tell as many others, near and far, about the Gospel of Christ as we possibly can. Part of the reason that people in some parts of the world are not aware of Christianity is because those who are aware of Christianity have not told those who are not aware of Christianity about it.
Finally, there is no such thing as “KJV Christianity,” and biblical truths are the same irrespective of in which reliable translation (in whatever language) they may appear. Interjection of so-called “KJV Christianity” into this or any other biblical discussion is disingenuous and irrelevant. Such off-hand references contribute nothing to sincere Bible study.
