For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
4.    The temporal-eternal view: Many scholars hold this view (including Purdy, MacKnight, Kent, Hendriksen, and DeWelt). It holds that God is the Savior of all men in that he preserves and delivers all men from a variety of evils and bestows upon them the blessings of this life (Acts 17:25-29). The benefits to believers, however, go beyond the temporal into the eternal. Homer Kent quotes Purdy as saying: