This picture of immature grain can help us understand God’s love. The leaves, stalks, and husks are necessary to bring the kernels to maturity. God sends rain on all of it, but the goal is to produce the kernels of grain. Once the grain is harvested, the kernels are put into the barn, but the rest of the plant becomes the chaff that is burned. If this is seen as a picture of humanity, does God love everyone? Image by Matthias Böckel from Pixabay
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.
