God Calls All

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 19, 1883

"Even as many as the Lord our God shall call."—This text is made to do service in proving that God calls a certain favored class, to the exclusion of all others. There is scarcely any error into which men may not run when they take a text from its connection, and do not compare it with others. The fact is God calls all; the promise is to "all flesh;" "whosoever will, let him come." "There is no respect of persons with God." These few texts show the fallacy of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination. On the other hand, we are kept from Universalism by reading that all will not accept the call. See Matt. 22:1-14. "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life." John 5:40. All the predestination there is in the Bible is simply this, that those who accept the call of God, repent and are baptized, and endure to the end, will be saved.