I don't know if "obligated" is the right word, but God is the cause of Adam's fall, and thus I believe God's plan was to offer salvation in His plan which was formed before the foundation of the world. So in that sense, God obligated Himself to provide salvation.
Do we all deserve hell? Yes, but God has also implemented a plan for salvation before the foundation of the world.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
No. God is not obgligated to save anyone, but God, in His great love, has made clear in the scriptures that He desires to save all, and that he, in
wonderfull His grace, has given saving "Light" to every person who has walked the earth.
The "whosoever wills" will be saved, and the "whosoever wonts will not..
is he under complusion to offer salvation to ALL sinners though? is it mandotory that Jesus death provoded for any and all to be able to get saved by him, or just limited to thsoe God intended his death for?
Adam is responsible for his own sin, however, God set him up to fail. God knew Adam would choose sin if givin the opportunity, which God provided.
If TULIP is true, then it would prove to be so unnecessary for God to provide Adam a choice to sin. God could have avoided all the hell and damnation and just created mankind that would always obey and love Him, as TULIP declars God does now.
I dont think of it as "cumpulsion , but rather It is His HEARTS DESIRE for all to be saved. God says clearly...
In adition, read the prodigal son passages.
God gives saving Light to every person who comes into the world no exceptions. That covers those who have never heard. Those who HAVE yeard are saved via the gosple of course.
Have you read the Helen Keller book? She was blind and deaf from birth, but when the teacher fingered that she was going teach her about God, Helen fingered back...Good, I have been thinking about Him for a long time.
Here you have to be careful for this happens alot in debate. We are speaking of theology and by the very nature thereof we have expressions of our own which we believe are based upon the way scripture reveals events or decrees to us.
I could say the same to you about "Total Depravity", Does the bible say this? If not ,why do you?
Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement and Iresistible Grace as well. You will not find these very words listed in the scriptures.
Would you agree that God knows all things from the end to the beginning? If so, then God knew very well that Adam and Eve would indeed eat of that tree when God placed it before them. It is God's plan and it is God alone who planned for Adam to fail and for Jesus Christ to be glorified through that failure.
Coming back to the 'numbered stepping points', my answer to the last numbered point (ie: after establishing the fallenness of the enquirer and Jesus' atoning death on the cross etc) would be simply this, at first blush: "ask". Further expansion on this last point would include:
1. Repent: this requires a life-change starting with a change of mindset, a re-orientation of the soul away from self and towards Jesus Christ, transforming heart and mind. This is primarily a work of the Holy Spirit and will happen in response to "asking" God to do this: the HS gives us grace to see our sin for what it is and turn away from it
2. Believe: faith or belief is another entirely free gift from God and is another guaranteed response from God to "asking"; belief is only possible by grace and the help of the HS, Who opens our eyes and mind to accpet and believe the truth. Belief/ faith is taking Jesus at His word, to believe the words of John 3:16 not just in our heads but in our hearts.
Well, you probably know that I consider that to be false doctrine.
God gives "oportunity" to every person who walks the earth. The "choosing" is for the lost person to repent and choose Christ/God, not God arbitrarilly choosing His pre-selected robots, as calvinism advocates.. .