God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
On the Arminian view, God’s justice makes it absolutely necessary that He do for one lost and undeserving sinner what He does for all. God was obligated by His own righteous character…to provide as much help, opportunity, and inducement unto salvation for Judas Iscariot as He did for the apostle Paul. Or, to put it in other terms, God is not sovereignly free to do for one sinner what He declines to do for another. He must do the same for
The fall is progressive, not static. Things don’t just go from good to bad. Rather, things continue to get worse. They don’t stay the same, and they don’t get better. It’s like a fatal disease that begins at a point in time, but then progresses and runs its ever increasingly destructive course.
