DEITY OF CHRIST

Saturday, October 13, 2012

The God of the Calvinist doesn't love everybody

"God loves whom He chooses. He does not love everybody."  A.W.Pink 
[1] He further argued that the word world in John 3:16 ("For God so loved the world…") "refers to the world of believers (God's elect), in contradistinction from 'the world of the ungodly.'"[2]

                                                                           ---John. F .Macarthur


Calvinists in their attempt to prove their theology go the extent of changing the meaning of many words. One such word is the word , "Cosmos" , which in the greek means world. 
Here A.W.Pink , the noted classical calvinistic theologian , states very clearly that God does not love everybody but only a few he chose to love and then tries to explain away the word "cosmos" by saying it means only the world of believers. 


"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him should not perish but have eternal life."
Let us paraphrase it the way A.W.Pink says it means and see even if the verse will make any sense.

For God so loved the world of believers, that he gave his only begotten Son, that the elect /chosen to believe and will have eternal life.
If this is what God wanted to communicate then he would have done so clearly . If this is what it means , then the structuring of the sentence will not have "whosoever".

But this is not what the verse is about. Even the structuring of the sentence and the words used, betrays the calvinist.

If you are not convinced with that ,then this verse should convince you read 1 John 2:2

"He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world."

He is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world and not just for the sins of the believers and the believers to come . God is giving propitiation for the sins of the whole world. Why? Because God loves everybody . That is why he sent his only begotten son , that whosoever believes in him should not perish but thave everlasting life.




Making John 3:16 to mean God loved only the world of believers goes against John 2:2 where Jesus is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world . 
This is one reason why I left calvinism . They were just explaining away verses and altering important truths.





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