Does God Want Everyone In His Kingdom?
Hello again!
I was curious to get your thoughts on this question. I'm not a Calvinist or anything. However there are certainly Biblical passages referring to the Hardening of hearts against God and his people (Pharaoh for example) which make me curious if God (or his government in the spiritual realm) actually work (or merely allow Satan and his legion to do their bidding without interference) to keep some people from ever grasping the validity of the truth claims of Christianity.
I'm not saying : If someone is an atheist God doesn't want them. Clearly many of us used to be atheists(myself included).
My curiosity is if some people are full of too much pride or love their sins(sexual immorality, drunken living, theft, hate, etc) that God keeps his government from doing any interference in an individual's life whatsoever as he deems them to be a lost cause?
I'm not saying I have scriptual support for this idea necessarily, other than the hardening of hearts in various areas I can't say that I do. However, I do believe that spiritual warfare is alive and well through passive clever influence which we can easily believe to be our own thoughts and ideas and through these things one may be more easily led to belief in the claims of Christianity than others.
What do you think? I'm completely open to perspectives affirming or disavowing this idea entirely. I was just curious to get some opinions.
Thank you for your time in reading this.
May The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob bless you :)