Question 19 - Alas, Christian God is hindrance to their salvation!

1 Timothy 2:4 NKJV - "who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."

John 12:40 NKJV - "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them."

Inference in the question: - Why did the Lord God, who wanted to save all the people, make the people hard hearted and blind?

Answer:

                There was a plan that Divine Son must do the sacrifice on the cross to compensate the sins of all human beings. For this reason, He made them hard hearted according to the Scripture. After the crucifixion of the Lord Christ, their blindness was removed; and they could enter the path of salvation by grasping the Son of Man as the true Lord.

                After Judas Iscariot handed over the Lord Jesus to the Jews, he left the desire on money and repented for his sins. So, he did not experience pomp and pleasures with these silver coins and died. Likewise, when the disciples of Jesus fled by leaving Him, who was captured by Jews, they were saved from the death. After the resurrection of the Lord, the Christianity gets a prior position in the world by their gospel service and writings.

                If the disciples also would have been crucified along with the Lord, today there will be no Christianity. At that time only, it would have been the end with the Lord. As in Luke 23:47-48, when He was crucified, after He died by crying out on the cross, many incidents happened. The centurion and those who were near the cross trusted, that this was a righteous man and glorified the Lord.

                When He died on the cross, the veil of the temple was torn in to two from top to bottom. The earth quaked; and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. For this reason, the people in the city of Jerusalem trusted in Him. Likewise, had not the brothers of Joseph hardened their hearts and sold their brother to Ishmaelite, along with the Egypt all the villages around it were destroyed with terrible famine. Along with them, total family of Joseph also lost without any name. The Lord God hardened the heart of Pharaoh and did many miracles practically to show to the Israelites through Moses. Here, the Lord God did not make the people hard hearted and blind that they could recognize the power in Him. So, the Lord God did many miracles for their hard nature. Thus, all men must be saved and came to know the knowledge of the truth.