This post follows my announcement Calvinism: Planting My Flag.

There is really just one thing to mention here and I’ve mentioned it already. I am still wrestling with the question of how God receives more glory when some are saved and the rest damned than if all were saved. If we take 2 Peter 3:9 at face value (which I think we should) and we believe that God has complete control over his creation and could save everyone if he wanted to (which he does and could) and yet we recognize that not everyone is saved, we face the question of why he does not save everyone. I discussed this some in my post Why I Am A Calvinist so I won’t rehash it here. I am completely satisfied to say there are two wills in God and that his will that all be saved stands under his will to magnify his own glory. But why is it more glorious that some be saved and others lost rather than all be saved? And as I discussed in my post on Calvinism, I am somewhat – though not completely – satisfied with Jonathan Edwards’ answer that for God’s glory to shine fully he must make manifest all of his character and nature, his wrath and justice as well as his mercy and love. Thus some are saved and demonstrate his mercy and love while others are damned and demonstrate his wrath and justice. The saved are saved only by his grace and the damned are damned justly because of their own sins.