You shared that man is condemned by his own sin. Let us consider two men born into this world: one is elect and the other reprobate. Both are born into sin, they both have inherited Adam's sinful nature as the Bible tells us that through the offence of one man, death reigned over the whole human race.
Indeed and scriptural.
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Both of these men stand condemned because of their sin and deserve punishment in Hell and separation from God. But at this point, the men are not in equal in blessing. Because you will probably say that God will only now work with the man who is elect to irresistibly draw him to accept salvation in Jesus Christ.
Agreed in principle.
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Let us consider that neither man has accepted the saving work of Jesus on the cross for their behalf. Of course by your views, the reprobate man might as well eat, drink and be merry, because he is dead as he stands on his feet. His eternal fate is already sealed he is reprobate and apparently darned happy that he is.
In fact, he may be blind to his position. Others may have some degree of their sinfulness but they willfully choose to deny God.
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Consider that suddenly both men are hit by a metro bus prior to either of them accepting Jesus. What happens now? Or are you going to say that the metro will amazingly swerve and only take out the reprobate. The elect will be spared this tragedy, for after all, he is elect and he will be eventually wooed by the Spirit of God to salvation. The Holy Spirit apparently knows not to woo the reprobate because God knows in advance that they will not be affected by His irresistible grace and drawing.
You missed the point. God saves all the elect, so unless this accident took God by surprise, your illustration becomes meaningless. The rest is basically correct. God controls our lives and will let none of His chosen perish. The Holy Spirit, despite the ramblings of MJM and similar ilk, does not attempt to save those God did not elect.
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I read in God's word that Jesus died for sinners:
1 Timothy 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
All men are sinners but will you say that only the elect need to be saved? If the reprobate cannot be saved then what purpose does their life serve beyond bringing God glory by accepting their fate as poor doomed from birth creatures that they are. The reprobate might as well commit suicide and await his final judgement so that the books will be empty of the sins that he would have piled on with no hope of ever being reconciled to God.
You have put forth some errors here. All sinners need saved. I have simply never stated otherwise. It's not that the reprobate cannot be saved, the reprobate cannot save himself. God does save people, just not everybody. We are condemned from birth in that we are born wit sinful natures. Killing yourself won't help. Hope? the reprobate don't want salvation. They remain willfully reprobate. Yes, all people are sinners, infants included. Because Jesus died for sinners does not mean ALL sinners. The text doesn't say ALL. If Christ saved two sinners, the passage would remain true.
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Will you say that the world in verse 19 above is only the elect? Then apparently our ministry of reconciliation must also only be to the elect. Surely the call to be reconciled to God, brought back into proper relationship with Him is made to all men. Then if they reject or ignore it, they now must bear their sin and be answerable to God for it and rightly so. But if they are the elect to reprobation and damnation, it is better if they had never lived.
The word KOSMOS has many meanings in scripture. Our mission is to all, as per Biblical command, the great commission. We don't know who the elect are so we offer the gospel to all. Only the elect will respond unto salvation. People bear their sin despite hearing the word. I agree, it would be better if the reprobate had not been born.
