It might seem strange to describe the doctrine of the love of God as ‘difficult’.  But it is, and D.A. Carson explains why.

1. Because if people today believe in God at all, then they are almost certain to believe that he is a God of love, and yet the very concept of love is likely to be shaped by the surrounding culture rather than by Scripture. For example, in Jodie Foster’s Contact the unexplained intelligence is ‘suffused with love, wisely provident, gently awesome’.…