The More questions Dr Craig and this one from Joel in the United States.

Hello Dr Craig, I loved your book Reasonable Faith so so much I've already read it twice and will probably read it again

I love being able to give reasons for my faith to unbelievers and it's already starting to change my friend's perspectives. My question is

concerning the doctrine of predestination held by Calvinism and your

defenders podcast you address the issue of election and make the claim that if God could save

everyone and didn't he wouldn't be in all loving God. So my question is was God

obligated to sacrifice his son for a fallen world of death row inmates?

Aren't we all deserving of death? And therefore God can freely choose to show mercy

on whomever he wills, even if he chose to show mercy on no one and give

them all what they deserve?

And isn't justice an act of love toward the victim of the crime, so therefore even if God gave justice to everyone,

he would still be all loving?

In response to Joel's questions, I would say that God is not obligated to sacrifice his son for us because I don't

think God has any moral obligations. On my view, obligations or duties are constituted by divine

commands and since God doesn't command himself to do anything, God has no

obligations including the obligation to save us. But what I would say

is that because of God's perfectly loving nature, he will freely choose to send his son to save us.

Now Joel rightly says, aren't we all deserving of death?

And therefore God can freely choose to show mercy on whomever he

wills. That's right. We deserve God's wrath and condemnation. So there's no

problem with respect to the justice of God.

The question concerns the love of God. Would God be all loving if he simply administered justice and saved no one or administered

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