Why Would God Create People Who Will Never Be Saved?
1) Direct answer
God did not create people “to damn them.” He created to fulfill His eternal purpose: to reveal His mercy on those He saves and His justice upon those who reject the light. The Bible shows election—some are His sheep and will come—and it also shows vessels that refuse the truth. God, the Potter, is sovereign; none who truly come to Him are ever turned away, yet not all are His.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Chosen before the foundation: “He hath chosen us in Him… having predestinated us” (Ephesians 1:4-5). “As many as were ordained to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48).
- Sheep and unbelievers: Jesus said, “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me… and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). “No man can come to Me, except the Father… draw him” (John 6:44). And again, “Ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep” (John 10:26-28).
- Wheat and tares: The Son of Man sowed good seed, but “an enemy” sowed tares; both grow together till harvest (Matthew 13:24-30, 37-43). God planted the wheat; He permits the tares.
- Book of Life: There are names written from the foundation of the world, and there are those “not written” (Revelation 13:8; 17:8).
- God’s purpose in vessels: “Hath not the potter power over the clay… to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”—to show His wrath and make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy (Romans 9:20-24).
- Responsibility of man: Men “loved darkness rather than light” (John 3:19). Some “received not the love of the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12). They stumble “being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed” (1 Peter 2:8).
- God’s heart toward His own: He is “longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish” (2 Peter 3:9)—to the “us” He calls and keeps.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- Now notice, the Bible does not say all will be saved; it says many go the broad way and few find the narrow way. If God intended to save everyone the same, why speak of sheep and goats, wheat and tares, vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath?
- You see, God must express all His attributes. If there were no lost, how could He be known as Saviour? If no Pharaoh, how would His power be declared? (Romans 9:17)
- Yet God never turns away a true seeker. The ones who come are those the Father draws; the ones who are lost love darkness and refuse His Word. Sovereignty does not cancel responsibility, and man’s rejection does not frustrate God’s purpose.
4) Reinforcing statement
If you hear His voice today, that’s His drawing. Believe the Word, come to Christ, and you will find your name was always in His mind. He loses none of His own.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 8:E-84
What does He mean by the "word of His patience?" Hebrews 6:13-15. "For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." You see the Spirit is speaking about the Word of God which is given to us. To wait for the fulfillment of that Word required patience even as it did in the case of Abraham. He endured as seeing Him Who is invi...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 3:E-13
I want to carry this thought all the way through, so let us go a step further. Have you ever studied the history of revivals? Now a revival signifies a move of God in power. And every time God moves, Satan is there to move also. It never fails. In the days of the great Welsh revival (and most people don't know this), the insane asylums filled up quickly, and there was a great display of devil power to take away the attention from God. It is written that in Wesley's day the people would do most peculiar things that...
The door inside the door
58-0209E §61
What if you was one of those kind that can never feel God anymore? You know, there's some people... God's not willing that any should perish; but there's some people that never can be saved. Not because God don't want it, but God by foreknowledge knew it. How many in here tonight that's already Christians and has (God bless you, young man)--- that's already Christians and ... but you're not leading the right kind of a life as a Christian. You say, "Jesus, come in and take the door of selfishness, pride, whatever it...
The Seed shall not be heir with the shuck
65-0429B §22
That's why the rapture, the bride, the wise virgin, the called-out, the foreordained, the elected... Why, you business men wouldn't run your office like some people try to think that God runs His program: haphazard. God knew before the foundation of the world who would be saved, and who would not be saved. By predestination, by foreknowledge, He saw every member, put every name on the Lamb's book of life before the church ever began. Jesus come to seek and save that which was on that book. He bought the book of red...
Why?
60-0309 §8
..., and twenty-second verses of the eighth chapter of the prophet Jeremiah. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? I'd like to take a subject and call it "Why?" You know, when God is so good to us to make a way for escape of danger and we do not accept that way, then God...