Robert Peterson and Michael Williams on the Love of God and Hyper-Calvinism

We also affirmed that the Bible teaches two seemingly contradictory, but ultimately complementary truths: (1) God loves a sinful world, and (2) he has a special effective love only for the elect. Only by affirming these two truths simultaneously do we do justice to scriptural teaching. If we refuse to hold the two truths in tension and downplay the first, we err in the direction of hyper-Calvinism; if we downplay the second, we err in the direction of Arminianism.

Robert A. Peterson and Michael D. Williams, Why I Am Not an Arminian (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2004), 214.