God’s Sovereign Love, Our Comfort
Prof. Robert Decker defends the Reformed doctrine of God's sovereign, elective love against Arminian and universalist conceptions that claim God loves all people equally. He argues that only a robustly Calvinistic understanding of God's love—grounded in His sovereignty rather than human choice—provides true comfort and assurance to God's elect people.
The subject as assigned to me by the committee was put in the form of a question: “Does emphasis on the love of God lead to Arminianism or to comfort for God’s people?” At first I did not understand the question. How could emphasis on the love of God lead to Arminianism? Upon a bit of reflection, however, I think I know what the committee had in mind. There are those who emphasize the love of God. God is love, they say. And the Bible does indeed say that God is love. But these people say this...