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No. God can redeem everyone of all time if He wanted to. That is not His divine purpose.

Christ wishes All who believe and follow Him to be saved, recognizing that only those who the Father draws into Him can believe, and that the Father has sent Him to save those people.

TLDR: Christ wants to save whom the Father sends Him, which is a small flock across time of predestined people.

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Parallel Structures 3w ago 💬 1

1 Tim 2:4-6

God wants everyone to be saved and to fully understand the truth. 5 There is only one God, and there is only one way that people can reach God. That way is through Christ Jesus, who as a man 6 gave himself to pay for everyone to be free.

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Laser 3w ago

"The scope of the desire and the scope of the ransom are parallel: God desires the salvation of all kinds of people (not only Jews or the upper class), and Christ died sufficiently for all kinds of people, but efficaciously only for the elect from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation"

h/t #Grok for reformed harmonization, drawing on the church fathers.

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_13de8765-151d-4572-8ca1-e9d9cc4d0734