All of us are at the mercy of God. My being chosen wasn't based on anything in me, anything good or bad I've done, or based anything something superior. He had mercy on me because He had mercy on me. That's the reason. God will in the end receive all of the glory because He is God.
No God does not wish or purpose to save everybody. He does not love everyone. In fact He hates certain people. He has prepared them for destruction and they will all die in their sins, for they have all sinned against Him and it is what they deserve.
What if the choices you make aren't based on free will, but God's purpose?
That is the only God in existence. There is no one else.
Some are chosen from the beginning to salvation, and the rest are hardened.
Where is man's free will in any of this? It's nowhere to be found.
But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. — Isaiah 64:8
All of us are at the mercy of God. My being chosen wasn't based on anything in me, anything good or bad I've done, or based anything something superior. He had mercy on me because He had mercy on me. That's the reason. God will in the end receive all of the glory because He is God.
No God does not wish or purpose to save everybody. He does not love everyone. In fact He hates certain people. He has prepared them for destruction and they will all die in their sins, for they have all sinned against Him and it is what they deserve.