A Double-Minded God Unstable in All His Ways
McGeown critiques John Piper's attempt to reconcile God's universal saving will with unconditional election, arguing that Piper concedes exegetical ground to Arminianism unnecessarily. The article defends the Reformed doctrine that God desires the salvation of only the elect and actively wills the damnation of the reprobate, contending this involves no divine contradiction.
Rev. Martyn McGeown (Article originally published in the British Reformed Journal, issues 57 & 58) (1) A Fatal Concession “My aim here is to show from Scripture that the simultaneous existence of God’s will for ‘all persons to be saved’ (I Tim. 2:4) and his will to elect unconditionally those who will actually be saved is not a sign of divine schizophrenia or exegetical confusion.” Thus begins John Piper in an article entitled, “Are There Two Wills in God?”1 Piper fails. He fails because...