Is God Really Love?
Is There Any Shadow Of Turning In Him?
“Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
James 1:16-17 KJV
Is Salvation only offered to some whom God fore knew and He damned the rest to hell: Calvinism.
Or is our free will just too strong in the end for a God Who is love and His free gift of grace, faith and mercy to out love us, that any could withstand and want to remain unwilling to yield, fighting against God for eternity? Armenianism.
For sure, I believe God will not end the pursuit first!
If salvation is won through Christ's sacrifice, and is then God's free gift to us, why would this gift be given only to some? Of course, there were answers that were typically given to this question, but with one exception they struck me as implausible. (The one reason that seemed plausible was that only some accept the gift, but that raised the question, at least in many cases, some of which made the question quite urgent, of why the offer wouldn't be made under more favorable circumstances.)
Universalism and the Bible The Really Good News
Keith DeRose,Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
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