Response to a friend who posted multiple verses which seem to indicate Christ died for all and that God loves all, etc.

Your post does not harmonize with the whole of the Bible which is how it can be determined that there are numerous errors in it.

First, the word "all" is conditioned by its context. When Caesar taxed all the world (Luke 2:1) it was not literally all the world, but it was all the Roman world. The world that was under his authority and subject to his taxation.

We speak this same way all the time. For example, when asked who from town was at the party? The response is: everyone was there. Does that mean every person in the whole town? Or every person that individual knows and counts as important. It’s usually the latter.

The "all" whom Christ will draw to Himself are the elect of God. Chosen by Him before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:3-5). They are all of "His people" that He determined to save:

Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Jesus emphasized that He came only for certain people when He said this:

Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He was not sent for all people of the world but only for "the lost sheep of Israel".

Moreover, Christ's words in the gospel of John chapter 17 will not permit the careless and superficial understanding of free will pastors and teachers regarding their erroneous claim that He died for everyone and loves all human beings:

John 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

We see that there were certain ones (the elect) that were given to Christ (verse 6) and they kept His word. It is certain that all the world has not been given to Christ because the vast majority of people in the world do NOT keep His word.

The next verse confirms this fact:

John 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

Jesus Christ Himself says that He does not pray for the world. But He prays for those people which were given Him. Again, a clear distinction is made between two types of people. One group Christ does not pray for. And the other which He does pray for.

Two groups of people as typified by Jacob and Esau. See:

Romans 9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

We are told that the choice God made, before either was born and before either one of them had done good or evil – was made in relationship to God's "election program" (verse 11).

Oh, the false free will preachers like to say, that's only speaking of Jacob and Esau and no one else. Well, first, that's an incorrect conclusion. And second, even if it were only speaking of Jacob and Esau, it still proves the statement "God loves everyone" to be wrong. God did not love Esau. The Bible states this plainly. He hated Esau. Esau is part of the human race. He is part of the world. God so loved the world – except for Esau – is that what we are to believe? Or God loves everyone – except Esau. This guy Esau must have been a particular reprehensible person to be signaled out by God as the only one out of all human history that God hates and does not love.

Esau was a sinner. But no worse than any other sinner. God hated Esau for his sins. True. But God also hates every sinner for their sins:

Psalm 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

As we see Esau is not alone insofar as God hating him. God hates "all" (there's that word “all” again) workers of iniquity. And to work iniquity is to sin. The Bible tells us "all have sinned" Romans 3:23). Therefore, God hates all sinners in their sins.

1 Corinthians 15:22a For as in Adam all die, ...

All mankind died in Adam because of sin. But,

1 Corinthians 15:22b ...even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Now apply the all encompassing understanding of "all" to the statement "in Christ shall ALL be made alive". Is that true? Have all people been made alive in Christ? To be made alive means to be saved. Is your free will gospel really saying that all humans beings are saved?

No. You’re not saying that. Because you recognize that most people are not saved. They reject Christ and you think that's why they perish.

Yet, you are inconsistent in your own doctrine. Here is the word “all” being used and according to what you are saying it must refer to everyone. But that's a Biblical impossibility since multitudes enter into hell:

Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Well, then, who are the "all" who in Christ are made to be alive? They are those typified by Jacob. They are the chosen ones. The elect of God. Jacob is representative of the chosen people God loved. And Esau is representative of those not chosen who remain in their sins and as a result are hated by God. Two manner of people.

Genesis 25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

Two manner of people. Two nations. The one (Jacob) representing the nation of God's elect people:

Revelation 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

While Esau represents the nations of the world. The unsaved inhabitants of the earth:

Luke 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after:

Whenever we read in the Bible that God so loved the world (John 3:16) or any similar language – we can be sure it is referring to the world of God's elect (the nations of them which are saved).