Where do we find…?

The issue is if God loves the non believer/non elect in the same way He loves His elect/believers. Is this why we never see preaching in the Bible (to the unsaved) saying "God loves you"? If not, why not?

What about where God says we are chosen? Does God choose everyone?

(Rom 8:30) And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Did He call all/justify all/glorify all? It seems you can't say He predestined all without saying He called/justified and glorified all.

Then, there is ...

(Eph 1:4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
(Eph 1:5) he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

I just think we need to realign some of our Arminian presuppositions to align with Scripture.

So Jesus dying on the cross for the sins of the world was not an act of unconditional love in your books. Got it.

My point was that John, Peter, Paul all wrote about God loving us, and Jesus loving us in their letters. I could quote the verses but I don't think I am being listened to so I will just make my point.

If they wrote about it then they preached it. Writing those letters was an example of their preaching and teaching.

These men were used by God throughout Acts and I am sure that what they wrote in their letters is what they said when they were not writing letters. Their letters are recorded documentation of what they preached and "not an argument from silence"

I really have nothing else to say about it.

Are you toying with the idea that you should not tell anyone that Jesus loves them until you know for sure if they are saved already? Because you know, if they are not one of the elect, then you don't want to tell them Jesus loves them?

I read Acts 2 and when they ask "what shall we do" and he says "repent and be baptized and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and the promise is to you and your children" don't you think they felt Loved? Like guilty sinners who crucified the Lord being offered Grace and forgiveness?

Demanding that Peter must say "God Loves You" instead of what he said does not mean that Peter did not communicate that God loved them. I am sure they would differ with your opinion on that.

If you could ask one of the 3000 they would probably tell you that Peter told them that God loved them so much he sent Jesus to die for them and rise again so that they could be saved from this crooked and perverse generation.

I am sure that if you interviewed these 3000 you would hear "God Loves Me" all day long.

Where do we find in preaching the Gospel in the Book of Acts the apostles saying to a crowd, “Jesus loves you”?

I’m not demanding anything, I just find it curious that the Apostles, when preaching to the unsaved, never say, “God loves you”, like so much of the syrupy preaching today.

So would you say God doesn't save those whom He loves? (since He loves everyone unconditionally)

I’m not demanding anything, I just find it curious that the Apostles, when preaching to the unsaved, never say, “God loves you”, like so much of the syrupy preaching today.

I hear you. The gospel never was just "Jesus Loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life" That is not how Peter and Paul preached to people. They explained the reason for Jesus, and the cross and resurrection, judgment to come and how to escape it through repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ.

I don't tell people Jesus loves you and walk away. That is no way to plant a seed. I tell them that Jesus died on the Cross to pay for the sins that they have committed so that they can repent and be saved from the judgment that is coming and three days later he rose from the dead and Jesus is Alive Right Now. Today.

Jesus is Alive!

But the new converts were drilled in the love of others. Have a look how many times 'love' is mentioned in the New testament. I think it occurs 39 times in John's gospel alone.

God is love!

I agree with you. I think Peter, John, Paul, who wrote about the Love of God and the Love of Jesus TOWARD Sinners. Also preached the same to people as they evangelized the unsaved.

And I think John 3:16 was understood and preached by them all.

God only loves his elect. Jesus only paid the eternal penalty for God's elect sins which is the lake of fire.
It would a crazy injustice if God paid for the eternal penalty for nonelect sins and nonelects still go to the lake of fire.

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/jesus-eternal-punishment-hours/
Lazarus and the rich man Luke 16:19-31
Extreme Dehydration, rich man begs for a drop of water.
Luke 16:24
King James Version (KJV)
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
A place of outer darkness Matthew 8:12
A place of no rest Revelation 14:11
A place of blackness and darkness forever Jude 13
A place where people are tormented with fire and brimstone Revelation 14:10
Extreme pain since you are in everlasting fire and constant guilt.
YouTube:
“David Platt – Jesus Absorbed the Wrath of God”

If Jesus didn’t die on the cross and carried all of our sins=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/jesus-eternal-punishment-hours/, God would still be just and holy, in sending us all to lake of fire because we are all guilty of our sins. Remember TV, movies, video games and computer games are all sins, except Christian stuff that don’t have sins like sermons. Just read the 10 commandments for a list.
But God was willing to have some mercy (to God’s elects), which we don’t deserve because we are all guilty of our sins. At least God was willing to have at least some mercy (to God’s elects), better than no mercy at all.

Isaiah 1:9
King James Version (KJV)
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant (God’s elects), we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Romans 9:29
King James Version (KJV)
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed (God’s elects), we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.


Jesus came to save us elects out of sin.

Bottom link for true gospel.

https://spreadthegospel59.wordpress...s-powerful-how-do-we-receive-the-holy-spirit/

John 3:16

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

From Ephesians 2:4-7
Since you believe God's love is conditional, do you believe you did something to merit His favor?

I had someone just yesterday telling me the same thing. Scripture says there are none righteous.

1 John 4:8b~ God is Love

What about where God says we are chosen? Does God choose everyone?

(Rom 8:30) And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Did He call all/justify all/glorify all? It seems you can't say He predestined all without saying He called/justified and glorified all.

Then, there is ...

(Eph 1:4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
(Eph 1:5) he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

I just think we need to realign some of our Arminian presuppositions to align with Scripture.