Book Review: Whomever He Wills - Chapter 3 Unconditional Election
Dr. Andrew Davis wrote chapter 3 of Whomever He Wills 1 , which counters Dr. Richard Land's chapter in Whosoever Wills called Congruent Election. Two high level observations before digging into the details. First, Dr. Davis does not get into corporate election. It's not Davis' fault - he is responding to Land and Land doesn't get into corporate election. But given the popularity of corporate election among Traditionalists and other non-Calvinist, the chapter feels incomplete. Second, Land constantly calls for a balanced view, one that accounts for passages on election as well as passages such as John 3:16, 1 Timothy 2:4-6 and 2 Peter 3:9, which express God's love for all and will for all to be saved. Davis only deals with election passages - he doesn't touch texts expressing God's love and desire for all to be saved. Maybe Davis' view is as balanced as Land would like, but his treatment in this chapter is not. The first thing about this chapter