Regarding Murray, Stonehouse et al , John H Gerstner writes :<br><br>"We must also sadly admit that the majority of Reformed theologians today seriously err concerning the nature of the love of God for the reprobates. We mention this here only because this defect in contemporary Reformed theology makes it all the easier for the dispensationalists to continue in their abyssmal error.<br><br>Most Reformed theologians also include, as a by-product of the Atonement, the well-meant offer of the gospel by which all men can be saved. Some Reformed theologians take a further step still and say that God even intends that they should be saved by this Atonement which nevertheless was made only for the elect. For example . John Murray and Ned Stonehouse write : " Our Lord......says expressly that he willed the bestowal of his saving and protecting grace upon those whom neither the Father nor he decreed thus to save and protect" (free-offer p26).<br><br>One must sadly say that Westminster Theological Seminary stands for the misunderstanding of the Reformed doctrine since not only Murray and Stonehouse but also Cornelius Van Til, RB Kuiper, John Frame, and, so far as we know, all the faculty, have favoured it. <br>The Christian Reformed Church had already in 1920 taken this sad step away from Reformed orthodoxy and has been declining ever since...................................................."<br><br>( from Wrongly dividing the word of truth; a critique of dispensationalism 1991 p127)<br><br>howard
