Does God Love Everyone?
McGeown argues that God's love is not universal but limited to the elect, challenging the common assertion that God loves everyone. The article defends particular redemption by examining biblical language about God's selective love and hatred, the limited scope of Christ's atonement and intercession, and the comfort found in God's effectual love for His chosen people. This resource articulates a distinctly Reformed understanding of divine election and the nature of God's love in relation to the non-elect.
Martyn McGeown Rev. Derek Dunn in the Ballymena Times (15 February, 2006) repeated the myth that God loves everybody. God loves the world but in Scripture that rarely means the entire human race (John 7:4; 12:19; Acts 17:6; I Cor. 11:32). In the Old Testament, God loved only the nation of Israel (Deut. 7:7) but even then not every Israelite, because “they are not all Israel which are of Israel” (Rom. 9:6). In the New Testament, God loves sinners from every nation, hence the term “world.” What...