Why Doesn't God Save Everyone? with Gray Sutanto
Gray Sutanto
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4 September 2025
11 November 2025
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 (https://amzn.to/3uWS0IM) , coauthor of Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction (https://amzn.to/3SYZDX1) , cotranslator of Herman Bavinck’s Christian Worldview (https://amzn.to/3T1d8ph) , and coeditor of Handbook to Neo-Calvinism (https://amzn.to/48y76lL) . 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 (http://twitter.com/GraySutanto) .Helpful Definitions:
• Concupiscence: The gravitational pull to sin.Resources Mentioned:
• Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 3, Job Follow Us:
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