Recently, a Calvinist asked me the following question in an all too common fashion.
He asked, “Are you saying that for God to be the perfect sum of love He must offer the gospel to all men equally? To give each and every man ever born equal access to the Word?”
Here is my answer. To me, your question conflates two different issues. It conflates the issue of whether God grants to everyone who hears a real choice to believe the gospel or reject the gospel with whether everyone gets the same opportunity. Calvinism rejects the former (which I believe is biblically unwarranted), and I believe that places Calvinism in a position of inadequately demonstrating how that is perfect love, which opinion I base on their writings in systematic theologies and individual books on the subject. I believe that if Calvinism is true, if in eternity we are to stand on the precipice of hell, all could see how God was always perfectly just in not letting any sinners into heaven, but I do not see how that demonstrates that He is perfect love since He withheld even the opportunity to come to heaven.
With regard to whether everyone gets the exact same opportunity, my answer is no, since this is an actual impossibility in a time and space continuum. However, because everyone may not get the same opportunity does not equal some receiving an inadequate opportunity or no opportunity.
