God does love everybody

spaminator101 · #1 09-05-2005, 01:32 PM

While most Calvinist will argue that God does not love everyone, Only loving those whom He predestined. God does love everyone in a sense.

God has a commen love for the whole world. Every Person falls under this catagory. If God did not love the whole world then He would not let us continue to live on the earth. However those whome He has predestined He has a special love for. Because of this love He chose to save them.

mackthefork · #2 09-05-2005, 02:42 PM

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However those whome He has predestined He has a special love for. Because of this love He chose to save them.

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What did he save them from? I think he hates me, but the lightning bolts keep missing, not the two outers though.

Mack

spaminator101 · #3 09-05-2005, 02:43 PM

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What did he save them from?

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from Hell

malorum · #4 09-05-2005, 02:57 PM

1 Tim 2:1-6;
2 Peter 3:9

spaminator101 · #5 09-05-2005, 03:02 PM

Romans 9
Ephesians 1
John17

malorum · #6 09-05-2005, 03:10 PM

Does god act contrary to his stated desire to save all people by virtue of an involuntary twitch.
Has he got some form of tourettes syndrome??

malorum · #7 09-05-2005, 03:13 PM

just a thought. perhaps he couldnt be bothered to save everyone because he was due to play in a freeroll

#8 09-05-2005, 03:28 PM

God set out a test, and the Christians failed.

See, he instilled us with a powerful mind capable of reason, logic, compassion, etc. He gave us dominion over all the earth. And he gave us a set of lies which would betray everything good in us -- told us we were insignificant, unworthy, unable to do anything for ourselves without his help or mercy. Those who bought into this schtick (aka Christians) sickened the Almighty. But there were those who chose to ignore that hogwash and took pleasure in their god-given bodies and minds and lived as free-thinking men rather than unworthy sheep, and were good in heart not because it offered some afterlife reward but because it was the course of reason. These men lived as creators, challenging the world and the ideas around them, rather than sacrifice their given faculties for reason in favor of comfortable myths. These men passed the test and were the true receivers of God's blessings.

David Sklansky · #9 09-05-2005, 04:06 PM

I wrote something similar a while ago. My father actually believes something similar to that.

malorum · #10 09-05-2005, 05:43 PM

Off topic.
New thread material.
But while were at it.
Yes these rational men are truly creators:
Of Global warming, of nuclear bombing, and of rational government (see Stalin)