By Mark W. Christy, PhD Among Christians, most would agree that Christ exhibited a love that was self-sacrificial. That being said, it is important to understand the biblical contours of His self-sacrificial love and the necessary divine constraints placed on such love by His other divine attributes. This article will discuss the relationship of Christ’s self-sacrificial love to the world and believers, and its connection with the fullness of God’s divine being. Christ’s self-sacrifice on...

By Mark W. Christy, PhD Claiming to be a former Calvinist, Leighton Flowers argues that Calvinists posit a God who “mak[es] vessels undeserving from birth so as to condemn them to display His glory.”[i] Calvinists, he continues, perceive God as being in “meticulous control over everything vessels do” to the extent that the vessels themselves no longer possess any personal responsibility as freewill is nonexistent.[ii] This view, he argues, arises from the according of primacy to God’s sovere...