The Confronting Christianity Podcast with Rebecca McLaughlin

Why Doesn't God Save Everyone? with Gray Sutanto

Episode Summary

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Gray Sutanto to have a conversation about why God doesn’t save everyone.

Episode Notes

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Gray Sutanto to have a conversation about why God doesn’t save everyone.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Can you give us a 60 second overview of your life?
• When you were 12, what made you turn to atheism? When you were 17 what made you turn to Jesus?
• Why doesn't God save everyone?
• Are human beings fundamentally good?
• What is concupiscence?
• Were we created with concupiscence? Or is this a feature of our curroption from the fall?
• How is it fair that God chooses one person over another to save?
• How is this invitation open to everyone, if not everyone has heard the gospel?

Guest Bio:

N. Gray Sutanto (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is assistant professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He is the author of God and Knowledge, coauthor of Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, cotranslator of Herman Bavinck’s Christian Worldview, and coeditor of Handbook to Neo-Calvinism. Gray is married to Indita and they have a daughter. He is an ordained minister in the International Presbyterian Church. You can follow him on Twitter.

Helpful Definitions:

• Concupiscence: The gravitational pull to sin.

Resources Mentioned:

• Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 3, Job