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A Question Not Of Sovereignty But Of Character
This is not to deny that God has the right to damn us all. However, it is no
t true that His justice requires Him to damn the non-elect any more than the
elect. Nor is it rational that God, who is infinite in love and mercy, woul
d allow anyone to be damned whom He could justly deliver.
Many scriptures clearly declare that God sent His Son "to be the Saviour of
the world" (John 4:42; 1 John 4:14) and that Christ on the cross paid the pe
nalty for the sins of the whole world so that God "might be just, and the ju
stifier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Romans 3:25-26). The ultimate prob
lem with Calvinism is the limit it places upon Christ's redemption and God's
infinite mercy and love.
Amazingly, however, most Calvinists see no contradiction between the God of
love presented in Scripture "who will have all men to be saved" (1 Timothy 2
:4) and the God who "saves whom he wills of his mere good pleasure" ze and l
eaves the rest of mankind without His mercy and grace because "it was his go
od pleasure to doom [them] to destruction." 21 |
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