Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Gray Sutanto to have a conversation about why God doesn’t save everyone.Questions Covered in This Episode:

Can you give us a 60 second overview of your life?
When you were 12, what made you turn to atheism? When you were 17 what made you turn to Jesus?
Why doesn't God save everyone?
Are human beings fundamentally good?
What is concupiscence?
Were we created with concupiscence? Or is this a feature of our curroption from the fall?
How is it fair that God chooses one person over another to save?
How is this invitation open to everyone, if not everyone has heard the gospel?

Guest Bio:N. Gray Sutanto (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is assistant professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He is the author of God and Knowledge, coauthor of Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, cotranslator of Herman Bavinck’s Christian Worldview, and coeditor of Handbook to Neo-Calvinism. Gray is married to Indita and they have a daughter. He is an ordained minister in the International Presbyterian Church. You can follow him on Twitter.Helpful Definitions:

Concupiscence: The gravitational pull to sin.

Resources Mentioned:

Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 3, Job

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