??????. Where are you?? How can a loving God not accept everyone?

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  • Where are you??
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  • How can a loving God not accept everyone?
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  • Why doesnt God accept everyone?
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  • This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3
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  • Why doesnt God accept everyone?
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  • God our Saviour wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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  • Why doesnt God accept everyone?
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  • Why doesnt everyone accept God?
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  • `As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel? Ezekiel 33:11
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  • "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Matthew 23:37
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  • The Lord is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9
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  • "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people." Romans 10:21
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  • The Story of the Two Sons
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  • 25 "Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27 `Your brother has come,' he replied,`and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.'
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  • The Story of the Two Sons 28 "The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29 But he answered his father,`Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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  • The Story of the Two Sons 30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!' 31 "`My son,' the father said,`you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'"
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  • Why doesnt everyone accept God?