From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective

by David Gibson

Biblical anthropology presents the effects of the fall as being so severe that the only universal thing we merit is judgment: The justice of God is questioned by some critics who protest that election-love is discriminatory and therefore a violation of justice. But all love is preferential or it would not be love. . . . The modern misjudgment of God flows easily from contemporary theology’s occupation with love as the core of God’s being, while righteousness is subordinated and denied equal ultimacy with love in the nature of deity.46 J. I. Packer is not “unfair” when he comments that these accessibilist arguments seem more influenced by American principles of fairness than by anything else.