Calvinist Bad Logic #5: Does God Love "All" People?
Bad Logic #5: Calvinists say that if God really loved all people then He would save all people. But since He doesn't save all people, it must mean He doesn't love them all in the same way. They say this because they assume that God's love has to ALWAYS end in saved people. And so therefore, according to them, God only really loves those He saves and only really saves those He truly loves.(Can you see the philosophizing going on here?)
And so then to make the verses about God "loving everyone" fit with Calvinism, they redefine "God's love" by breaking it into two types of love: a "save your soul" kind for the elect and a "gives you food and water while you're alive" kind for the non-elect. (And God's grace is along the same lines. Calvinists LOVE the idea of grace. They talk about it all the time. But they don't mean that God gives grace to all people. They mean that God gives grace - saving grace - to only a f…
And so then to make the verses about God "loving everyone" fit with Calvinism, they redefine "God's love" by breaking it into two types of love: a "save your soul" kind for the elect and a "gives you food and water while you're alive" kind for the non-elect. (And God's grace is along the same lines. Calvinists LOVE the idea of grace. They talk about it all the time. But they don't mean that God gives grace to all people. They mean that God gives grace - saving grace - to only a f…