Calvin said the exact same thing. Does that surprise you? It took me 37 seconds to call up the text in question, click on Calvin's commentary, scroll down to the relevant verses and copy and paste Calvin's words into this post. There is no excuse for the openly sentences of this op. There's no excuse for not checking Calvin's commentary on the 1 Timothy 2 text before posting.
Calvin's commentary on 1 Timothy 2:3-6 reads, in part, as follows,
"The universal term all must always be referred to classes: of men, and not to persons; as if he had said, that not only Jews, but Gentiles also, not only persons of humble rank, but princes also, were redeemed by the death of Christ. Since, therefore, he wishes the benefit of his death to be common to all, an insult is offered to him by those who, by their opinion, shut out any person from the hope of salvation."
Calvin explicitly stated his opposition to those who argued the Timothy text excluded anyone. All classes of men are included. Calvin explicitly stated it was an "insult" to shut out anyone from the hope of salvation.
Therefore, this opening post is demonstrably incorrect. Either someone taught you wrongly, falsely about Calvinism, or you are the one solely responsible for the mistakes made in this op. Either way, correction is warranted. Calvinism does not teach God caused anyone to sin or chose them or destruction apart from their free will.
Will you now acknowledge what Calvin is shown to have written? Will you now do the factually correct thing and the morally right thing and acknowledge Calvin did, in fact and truth, teach 1 Timothy 2:3-6 teaches no one should be excluded from the hope of the gospel - "
all" does mean all?
