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    Challenges→God's deepest love for a person does not always require identifying with that person's own interests (in Jordan's sense of desires or goals).

    Christians believe that God often disciplines those whom he loves and chastises every child whom he accepts (Hebrews 12:6).

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    Two critical problems arise at this point. First, why suppose that the deepest love for others (in the sense of willing the very best for them) always requires identifying with their own interests? According to Jordan, a person’s interest is merely “a desire or goal had by that person—something that a person cares about” (Jordan 2012, 62, n. 26; see also Jordan 2020, 83). But in that sense of “interest,” God’s deepest love for a person surely requires that God actually oppose or impede some of that person’s interests. Why else would Christians believe, as the author of Hebrews put it, that God...

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