Does God Love Everyone? In Calvinism Satan Wants Everyone by God Doesn't
Calvinists Don't Love - They are On a Nicolaitan Power Trip
The character of God is He deeply sincerely loves every single person and desire the well being of every single person. You cannot truly love someone if you do not desire their true flourishing. The true flourishing of every human being is to be rightly related to God as well to fellow human beings. Arminians can say this without equivocation. Calvinists have a problem with that so they employ ambiguity.
If you have children as a parent you are obligated to love them. It is not a strength to not love some people, but it is a defect. To love someone you want their short term flourishing as well as their long term flourishing. Providing mere earthly blessings is not love even if for 70 years of 80 years of your life. Paul said love does not seek its own. The god of Calvinism is seeking his own glory by crushing and reprobating people when he could have easily irresistibly elected everyone.
For God to determine our choices would not give us free will to have a relationship with God.
John Calvin has 40 pages of verse numbers in the footnotes of his Institutes, and he never mentions 1 John 4 even once, but this chapter uses the word "love" 26 times. God is love. The god of Calvinism is not love.
"Love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law" (Rom. 13.8). Love your neighbor as yourself. He who has loved his neighbor has fulfilled the law. Jesus fulfilled the law, so Jesus loved his neighbor. His neighbor is defined as his enemies. We are told to love our enemies. So Jesus loved all people, the people of the world. If Jesus didn't love everyone then he did not fulfill the demands of the law. Calvinist say Jesus didn't love everyone so Calvinists worship a false Christ that didn't fulfill the law. So the god of Calvinism can't be the Triune God but is Satan's facsimile. Jesus is expressing to God love for His enemies: "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23.34). The god of Calvinism does not have this love.
Calvinists overemphasize their god's sovereignty (though I don't think he is very sovereign at all as he is limited unable to do what God can do) and underestimate or deemphasize God's love. That's telling. It seems to me Calvinists are on some Nicolaitan power trip!
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