We do know who "can" be saved. We can know "how" a sinner is saved. These are two areas of disagreement and I think they are essential. A sinner is saved by the gospel. By that I mean he is saved by believing it after hearing it. God sends his preachers out to the world to proclaim the good news that Christ died for their sins and God has been propitiated on behalf of all men by his substitutionary death. The how of salvation is that God gives the gift of life, who is the Holy Spirit, righteousness, salvation and his eternal presence to any and all who hears, repents and believes the gospel of Christ and puts their full weight on him to deliver them.Another fallacious argument. The fact is that no human being knows who is saved or who will be saved. We do not know what is in the heart of man, only God knows. Some we might think are saved may not be and others we do not think are saved might be saved.
"Sharing" the gospel will mean different things to you and me. You think that God has already marked for salvation those who are preached to and you have no conviction that the gospel has any power to save them if they are not elect. Your presentation will lack passion and maybe even love for that sinner. You will probably conclude that he may be, and possibly is, unsavable. You are willing to walk away with the attitude that neither you or God can do anything for him if his lostness is predetermined.Our job as christians is to share the gospel and let God do the saving. I will quote Paul and leave it at that !
Philippians 1:15-18
It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. 16 The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. 17 The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains. 18 But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,
I do not believe that. The passage I would quote, which is in the context of getting a sinner to God, is this one;
2 Cor 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
What do we persuade them about?
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
The reason the gospel is the power of God unto salvation is because it acts in the heart of a sinner in the same way a seed acts in the ground. It takes time for it to germinate. Paul understood this and spoke of it in his letters. He said he sowed and Apollos watered but God gave the increase. Peter says "being born again, not with corruptible seed but incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever." Luke said, "the seed is the word."
Most saints were not saved the first time they heard the gospel.
That might be true if God was only interested in saving us, but it is not. He is interested that his Son receives glory in our salvation. He does not get any glory from Calvinism and their weird unscriptural teachings about it. The cross is incidental to a transaction between God and a few sinners who are elect that has already been made long before he went to the cross. Your glory is in being one of those elect even though you can only point to your own works to prove it.And BTW the debate between Israel and the Church is an in-house debate among brothers in Christ much like the Arminian/Calvinist debate is an in-house debate. Neither are salvific.
And you should be ashamed to compare a JW with any Arminian or Calvinist.
What if I compared you with mormons and said your doctrine is just like them and you have changed the meaning of Gods word in many places ?
hope this helps
If I have changed the meaning of words then point them out and I will rectify it.