“Forced Love” Is the Wrong Way to Look at It I often hear the Calvinist view of salvation (i.e., that God gives spiritual life to those whom He chooses so that they will inevitably love and trust in Him) denigrated as a description of worthless “forced love.” This kind of analogy is a common one: If you were in love with someone who wasn’t in love with you, you wouldn’t want to snap your fingers to force that person to love you, even if you had that capability. As one book I recently read said, “[S]uch forced love is ultimately not worth pursuing.” But the analogy is all wrong. The situation is actually more like this: ”
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