He causes the rain to fall on the just and unjust. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
There is no way that we can get around God's word. I'm committed to it, rather than any systematic theology. For Calvinists, it means that God does/did desire no one perish. Of course He doesn't want sin's infection and damage to His loved creation.
Psalm 1:6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for his own purposes, even the wicked for a day of disaster.
1 Peter 2:7To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word— and to this they were appointed.
For me, this is the end-all concerning my theology:
Matthew 13:24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept,
his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘
No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
The analogy says plainly an enemy is responsible, thus anyone seeing God is not responsible for sin, is correct: has to be.
In the analogy, there is also something vague conveyed (I think purposefully): Lest...you...uproot...wheat. It means, even if God knows which are wheat and which are weeds, 1) That we don't and God is concerned lest any of His own perish. Every Open Theist will agree that as believers, we are the ones precious to Him, He is concerned about. 2) That He really is unwilling that any perish. In the analogy, weeds are always weeds and wheat is always wheat (Calvinism) but at least it is clear that we, His creation, don't know which is which. There is a real sense then that the weeds and wheat look exactly the same until the harvest. -Lon