It is simply impossible to maintain that a God who damns those He could save (much less who takes pleasure in doing so!) is merciful and full of love. How then can the Calvinist escape the charge that he misrepresents the God of the Bible? Sovereignty can't excuse or justify callous neglect on God's part to rescue those He could save. That God has the right to damn everyone does not make it loving and merciful.

Our disagreement with Calvinism is not over God's sovereignty, which is biblical. But Christians do disagree with Calvinists over their misrepresentation of God's sovereignty. The issue is whether God loves all without partiality and desires all to be saved. Unquestionably, Calvinism denies such love, no matter how the "moderate" Calvinists try to explain that fact away. Yet the Bible repeatedly declares God's love to all and His desire that all should be saved and none should be lost.

The God of the Bible is surely even more loving than He expects Christians to be. We may be certain, as Spurgeon said (contradicting himself with irresistible grace, unconditional election, total depravity), that just as we desire the salvation of all, so that is God's desire--as Scripture so often and plainly declares. God does not have multiple wills that contradict each other--He is not bipolar! To say that the God who is not willing for any to perish provides salvation for only a limited number of elect does violence to Scripture and maligns God's character. There is no way around this heresy! Though many have tried.

If grace is irresistible, why doesn't God, who is love and full of compassion, impose it upon everyone? But grace cannot be irresistible. God cannot force anyone to believe in Christ, much less to love Him. All who would be in God's presence for eternity must love Him sincerely, and love requires genuine choice. Most Calvinists do not love God sincerely, never have and probably never will, for it requires true repentance, and not just any kind of repentance, but repentance from Calvinism. True remorse and detestability!

The Bible declares that multitudes will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. Why? There are only two possible reasons: either God causes multitudes of men to go to hell because he doesn't love and has no desire to save them (as in calvinism)--or they willfully reject the salvation He offers. Nor can it be both (for that is contradictory), or God's will coincides with that of rebels who would wish the salvation of everyone.