To move the locus of faith from the kindness of God’s grace to zeal for our arguments is to miss the mark. That is why even the great Presbyterian theologian Benjamin Warfield said that the heart of Reformed theology is not predestination but grace. To emphasize predestination over the kindness of God inadvertently turns a proper acknowledgment of how God acts into an improper qualification for the grace that God grants. God loving us entirely out of his mercy is the point we miss if we focus on
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