John 3:16 is always considered wrong ,or false or an "empty concept" or a lie, by deceived Calvinists.
Maybe this is true. I have no idea. But since you have responded to my post, I can only conclude that I misspoke or that you misunderstood me.
Here is what I said. "The idea of a reconciled world is an empty concept. Perhaps you don't know reconciliation is the restoration of amity between two former enemies."
To help clarify my point, I offer the quip I found in the San Jose Register Guard many years ago. "To love the world is no chore; the problem is the guy next door."
But God does not agree, as God is not a deceived Calvinist or a Fool. (CALVIN was a demonized fool).
Notice what God says.. and remember, that the "world" in the following verse... is the "human race", not the plants and insects and planets.
Ever wonder why John used the term "world" rather than the term "everyone"? According to your understanding, John could have written "For God so loved everyone that he gave his only begotten son . . ." But John didn't mean to say that God loved everyone. John didn't mean to say that he loved the entire human race.
We must understand John's use of the term "world" from within his gospel. In the opening chapter of John's gospel he writes, "He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God,
even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God."
not of blood . . .
From this we understand that John is speaking into an international debate concerning the qualifications of God's blessings. On one side of the issue, we have those who say that God is blessing those who are related by blood to Father Abraham, while on the other hand, we have others who argue that God is blessing all those who share the faith of Father Abraham, whether Jew or Gentile.
Here the Apostle John explicitly and unambiguously affirms that bloodline is not a qualification for the blessing of Abraham.
who were born . . .
John reminds his readers that while Jesus first came to his own people, they didn't receive him as a group, but some did. The essential quality that marked those who received him from those who didn't is that the receivers were born by the will of God.
As we can see, John is concerned about ethnic exclusiveness. For this reason, John's gospel is filled with hints, clues, and explicit statements about God's impartiality. Bloodline is not a qualification for the blessing of Abraham.
Consequently, we understand John 3:16 from that point of view. The question centers on the qualification for entrance into the kingdom of God. According to Jesus, one can not enter the kingdom of God unless he or she has been born again (or born from above). With regard to eligibility, The Lord places a condition on entrance into the kingdom. We must bear this in mind as we seek to understand John 3:16.
John 3:16-21 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
For God so loved . . .
What does Jesus mean by "loved" in this context? The Lord is not talking about God's emotional disposition toward the world. In the New Testament, the term "love" is an action verb indicating the type of beneficence granted to the beloved. God's love is always manifest in what he does. In this case, God loved the world by giving his only begotten.
the world . . .
Did God apply this beneficence to all of humanity as a group? But no, according to The Lord, being born from above is what makes one eligible to receive the kingdom of God. And the blessing of God's grace through the cross is granted exclusively to those who believe in his son. Belief in Jesus Christ is among the several conditions that mark those whom God has set aside to bless with eternal life. The Lord mentions a few more: 1) loves the light, and 2) practices the truth.
Reconciliation found in the cross is not universally available to all humanity but is restricted to those whom God chooses to bless with being born again. Jesus says that God loved "the world" to disabuse Nicodemus of his belief that one must be related by blood to Abraham in order to receive God's blessing. The kingdom of God will include people from all other family lines also.