
Ep. 113 David Bentley Hart responds to Alan W. Gomes critique of That All Shall Be Saved
Grace Saves All: Christianity and Universal Salvation
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I Love the Darkness More Than the Light
Gomes says we're not taking seriously enough the willfulness of sin. On Hart's view, hating God is a form of misplaced love for him, and apostasizing from him is an attempt to seek him. Gomes: No one doubts that a malformed will loves the darkness rather than light. But what does the gospel of John have actually say? It doesn't claim that those who rejected Christ did so because they fully understood who he was. He claims that they didn't understand who he was in part because they had already rejected God in a different way.
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