Norman L. Geisler's "Chosen But Free"

An interesting part that I read in Norman L. Geisler's book "Chosen But Free" is how he mentions that God has evil angels under His control. I know that everything is under God’s control, even Satan, but this actually shocked me when I read the scripture that was provided. Geisler uses I Kings 22:19-20 to prove his point. Although everything is under God’s control, I guess the part that I was more surprised about was how God allowed the evil spirits to entice Ahab and to lie to him in order to entice him (28).
Another thing that I found interesting about Geisler’s book was his discussion on God’s love. 1 John 4:8 says “...God is love.” It does not say that God only loves those who are saved, He is love. In John 3:16, it says “For God so loved the world,” it does not say that God only loves those who are saved. Christ’s desire is for all to be saved. He has created every single person on this earth, and He does not only love those who choose to follow Him. If He did not love those who were not saved, He would not use His sovereignty to put people in unsaved individuals lives to share truth with them. If He did not love the unsaved, He would not care if the Great Commission was fulfilled, because He would not care if unsaved people groups knew Jesus or not. Something that Geisler says that I completely agree with is “if God loves only the elect, then He is not Omnibenevolent. God cannot be all-loving if He does not love all” (89). This is so true. Omnibelevolent means that someone is “all good”. God cannot be considered all good if He chooses not to love those who do not follow Him.
Geisler also addresses the topic of salvation in his book. He gives an illustration about three drowning boys, and how a farmer is debating on whether or not he should rescue the boys. He mentions that there were distinct warning signs, and yet, they still disobeyed (141). This shows a great similarity between God and all sinners. The world is full of sinners. If god chose to do absolutely nothing about those who sin, (which is every single human being) then He would not be looked at as a loving God. Since He so chose to send His son to save the whole world, then He is showing His love for all sinners. Since all sinners have warning signs telling them to stay away from sin, and temptation, God has every right to make the decision of not saving His broken children. But since He is a loving God, His desires are different. He wants the unsaved to be saved, and He loves those who are not. Geisler also mentions that His desire is not that anyone would perish (202.) his heart breaks for those who are in Hell, and He does not want them to be there, but because of their actions, sins, and unrepentant hearts, they are sent to Hell.