Benevolence or Mercy? The Problem with the First Premise of the Hiddenness Argument

The first premise of J. L. Schellenberg’s Hiddenness Argument equates God’s love with a positive relationship to human beings. To illustrate this relationship, the model parental is used, based on standards modern American liberal world, not biblical standard. As result, we attribute God narrowly understood horizontal towards people, which completely alien understanding developed in Christian tradition. When refer classical theism that recognized as central God, will see it should be vertical model, consisting offering good and mercy. This undermines benevolent replaces merciful or Ultimately, makes very questionable whole argument calls for significant revision.