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发帖数: 3781 | 1 After declaring that God only regenerates an elect few, Palmer exults, "What
a good God!" 19 The Calvinistic elect can say that, but how is God being go
od to those whom, instead of regenerating, He damns to eternal suffering? In
fact, the God of the Bible is not only good to a few but to all:
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unt(
them that call upon thee. (Psalms 86:5)
The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him .... (Ezra 8: Je
sus of Nazareth . . . went about doing good, and healing all that 'A oppress
ed of the devil; for God was with him. (Acts 10:38) [Were only elect "oppres
sed of the devil"?]
How could it increase the responsibility of those who are incapable of respo
nding to plead with and warn them? Instead, whoever withheld the help which
someone needed would be held accountable. Yet this immoral, deliberate withh
olding of salvation is attributed to God under the excuse that it is "God's
good pleasure to do so."
Would someone who stood by and watched a person drown whom he could have sav
ed be exonerated if he explained that it had been his "good pleasure" to do
so? Doesn't God have an even higher - yes, a perfect - standard of love and
concern? |
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