be willing to agree. But if the farmer proceeds to say, “Therefore I will make no attempt to rescue them,” we would immediately think something is lacking in his love. And suppose by some inexplicable whim he should declare “I have no obligation to save any of them, but out of the goodness of my heart I will save one of them and let the other two drown.” In such a case we would surely consider his love partial. Certainly this is not the picture we find of the God of the Bible who “loved the world” (Jn
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