So an important distinction must be made. God loves believers with a particular love. It is a family love, the ultimate love of an eternal Father for His children. It is the consummate love of a Bridegroom for His bride. It is an eternal love that guarantees their salvation from sin and its ghastly penalty. That special love is reserved for believers alone.
However, limiting this saving, everlasting love to His chosen ones does not render God's compassion, mercy, goodness, and love for the rest of mankind insincere or meaningless. When God invites sinners to repent and receive forgiveness (Isa. 1:18; Matt. 11:28-30), His pleading is from a sincere heart of genuine love.
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Does God love the elect and hate the non-elect?
John MacArthur claims that God invites sinners to repent and receive forgiveness from a sincere heart of genuine love.
But.
Clearly God does love even those who spurn His tender mercy, but it is a different quality of love, and different in degree from His love for His own.
A sincere love. A genuine love. But a substandard love, not enough that they can come into the kingdom.
How sincere is that?
OK, you don't have to stay in Jail, I'll pay your $1000 fine. So I go to the clerk, give him $500, and say, OK, I've done what I said.
God is love. God is not "loves". God is love and that love is supreme, as all that God is. God is not, Greater Love and Lesser Love.
God does not love with a second-rate love.
Much love!
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