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1 Timothy 2:4
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4 Who [hos] will have [thelo] all [pas] men [anthropos] to be saved, [sozo] and [kai] to come [erchomai] unto [eis] the knowledge [epignosis] of the truth. [aletheia] KJV-Interlinear
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. NASB
God desires for everyone to be saved, however, God does not coerce or force anyone to believe in Him. This is an optional belief for everyone, however, God does make sure that everyone who comes to the decision point of believing or not, knows the repercussions of both decisions.
To believe in Christ, means an eternal life in heaven. To reject Christ means eternal condemnation in the Lake of Fire.
God is the glue that holds all things together, the infinite resource that sustains and supplies all needs.
To reject Christ and to choose a life without God, means to reject any power that holds your existence, your environment, together. To reject Christ means to reject forever, everything that would be needed for ones eternal existence.
Therefore, rejecting Christ means that the unbeliever will be in a place separated from all resources and all sustaining power, and is on ones own. The magnitude of that kind of existence is beyond ones ability to understand, apart from the descriptions given in the Bible. The descriptions of the Lake of Fire are not good, and horrendously horrible and worse.
Since we can be alone in this life, we do not realize that we are not really alone, not really unsupported. For all around us is our environment, buildings, floors, ceilings, air, food, sounds, colors, etc., etc., etc. But when you remove all of these things, then you are totally alone with absolutely nothing to hold your existence together.
God is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works, Psa. 145:8-9. There are mercies from God for everyone. They are not excluded to believers only. However there are many forms of mercy, and the more advanced forms accompanied with blessings, belong to believers only, for obvious reasons. Family always receives priority treatment over strangers who refuse to join the family.
God as savior appears in several passages, 2 Sam 22:3; Psa 106:21; Isa 43:3,11, Isa 45:22-23, 1 Tim. 1:1; 4:10; Titus 1:3; 2:10; 3:4.
Gods saving character is made manifest through Jesus Christ, 1 Tim. 2:5-6; 2 Tim 1:10; Titus 1:4; 2:13; 3:6.
God is the savior of all men in that He provided the means of salvation for everyone (temporal salvation), but His saving grace becomes a reality for those who actually believe in Christ (eternal salvation), 1 Tim 4:10.
People just have to repent (change their minds from their rejection mode) and believe, Isa 55:1, Ezek 18:23,32, Ezek 33:11, 2 Peter 3:9.
Jesus Christ is God, and there is no other deity. All other religions ignore or mis-state this truth.
Isa. 45:22-23
22 "Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.
However, salvation is not the sum total of Gods plan for the individual. After salvation, one must grow up and become an adult in order to enjoy the full riches of ones life. And that is incorporated in the word for knowledge, ‘epignosis,’ which means possessed knowledge, or wisdom.
‘Gnosis,’ is the knowledge of details, but ‘epignosis,’ is knowledge mastered and at the command of the one possessing it. The spiritually mature believer has ‘epignosis,’ in his soul, wisdom, 2 Tim 2:25; 3:7; Titus 1:1.
Approval is obtained from God through your daily study of Bible doctrine, ‘Study to show thyself approved [mature],’ 2 Tim. 2:15.
God desires for everyone to be saved and to be grown up to their fullest completeness in life that is possible.
The only thing that stands in the way of your not attaining the best life possible, is your daily decision to not study.
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