As Pastor John Piper finishes up his travels through the Middle East during the month of

November, we're going back into the archives and re-spreading a few As Pastor John recordings

from years past.

And back in January of 2010, he was asked to respond to this question.

I believe in the doctrine of election, but I don't like it.

Is it a sin for me to not like the doctrine of election?

Here's what Pastor John had to say.

It's sin not to like the true doctrine of election.

It's sin not to like what God likes.

Now I would want to say like that because many people have conceptions of doctrines, all

kinds of doctrines that are inaccurate.

And therefore their good hearts dislike them.

So you could say, I dislike election and be a good person because you don't see election

clearly and what you're disliking should be disliked.

Or you may be a person who is starting to see it clearly and your old self, which is

bad, is rising up and not liking what ought to be liked.

So I don't know whether this person should be chastised or not.

So the principle would be to the degree that you see biblical truth clearly, you should

like it.

Now there are very hard, I mean hell is a biblical truth.

So I want to say you should like hell.

What I mean is the way God does.

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