A Friend Who Turned His Back On God
❓ Question: I have a friend who turned his back on God after his third year in a conservative evangelical seminary. He was taught that God has already decided who will be saved and who will spend eternity in hell; who will have good things happen to him in life, and who will have bad. Can you help me to help him? ✅Answer: There is no doubt that God is sovereign and could have predestined some to heaven and some to hell. Or He could send us all to hell because that is what we deserve. The question is not God’s sovereignty, however, but His love. And that God wants all mankind to be saved and to be in heaven is clear: "For God so loved the world…that the world through him might be saved" (John 3:16-17). "The father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world (1 John 4:14). "The Lord is…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). "Who will have all men to be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the truth" (...