Peter Ditzel

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We left off in Part 1 with the crucial question of how reprobation to damnation can possibly agree with the fact that God is love.
We left off in Part 1 with the crucial question of how reprobation to damnation can possibly agree with the fact that God is love.
Those skeptical of the doctrines of election and reprobation commonly ask questions that go along these lines: “Why would God elect some people to salvation and allow the rest to be damned?” “If God can save the elect, why doesn’t He just save everyone?” “If God is love, how can He have reprobated some to damnation?” These are good questions, and they deserve good answers. Let’s start with answering why God determined to use election to salvation and reprobation to damnation, because if we answer that first, the answers to the others will fall into place.