Sunday, January 20, 2013
On the Love of God and Reprobation and Election
God does not love every single person on the face of the planet equally. But furthermore I would add that He does not love the Reprobates at all nor should we suggest that He loves them even though He is seemingly kind to them. The purpose in which God enacts His love and kindness towards the elect is not and should not be equated as the same in which He lavishes His goodness upon the Reprobate. For one God's end in lavishing His love and kindness and goodness on the particular elect chosen freely and soveriegnly is that they would be like Christ. And the end to which God continues to do good to the Reprobate is that they would continue to love their sin and thereby be decieved. This is best illustrated as a planter feeds the certian plants that he wants to grow and see come to maturity he feeds, but the other plants that he does not want he does things for the purpose that they would die off.
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