Enduring Love Enduring Love Enduring Love (1997) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. The plot concerns two strangers who become perilously entangled after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful and cloudless day, a middle-aged couple celebrate their union with a picnic. Joe Rose, aged 47, and his long term partner Clarissa Mellon are about to open a bottle of wine when a cry interrupts them. A hot-air balloon, with a ten-year-old boy in the basket and his grandfather being dragged behind it, has been ripped from its moorings. Joe immediately joins several other men in an effort to bring
Limited atonement created Adam in a state of original righteousness, but he fell into sin and all humanity in him as their Federal head. Those elected to salvation were chosen without a view to their faith or good works but by the sovereign will of God. The Calvinist atonement is called "definite" by some because they believe it certainly secures the salvation of those for whom Christ died, and it is called "limited" in its extent because it effects salvation for the elect only. Calvinists do not believe the power of the atonement is limited in any way, which is to say