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Originally Posted by sotzo  Is it possible for a person to want/desire to know Christ as his/her Savior and not be among the elect? |
True desire to know Christ for the right reasons is given as the gift of God, through the Spirit. I don't think there can be any doubt about that. Nobody is sent to hell against their will.
However, there are lots of reasons one might want to know Christ as his/her Savior but do so in a way that is self-serving or merely "hell-insurance". Most people don't want to go to hell if you ask them - and I suspect that
many might profess some sort of desire to know Christ (I can think of one person who is in the family of some folks at our church who I think is probably under this kind of a misapprehension). Such folks could be said to "want" or "desire" to know Christ - but their desire, their aimed-for end, is misplaced... and thus they'll not truly know him in a saving way.