The biggest issue with Arminianism

eleos1954 said:

The problem with Calvinism is that it dismisses the Love of God and God IS love .... Love requires choice and He created us that way ... in His image of Love to love.

Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Love is the core aspect of God’s character, His Person. God’s love is in no sense in conflict with His holiness, righteousness, justice, or even His wrath. All of God’s attributes are in perfect harmony. Everything God does is loving, just as everything He does is just and right. God is the perfect example of true love. Amazingly, God has given those who receive His Son Jesus as their personal Savior the ability to love as He does, through the power of the Holy Spirit (John 1:12; 1 John 3:1, 23-24).

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Mark Quayle said:

Yet, somehow, all this hinges on YOUR notion of love —not God's.

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eleos1954 said:

Not so ....

1 John 4:19

We love because He first loved us.

1 John 4:10
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Jesus the atoning sacrifice for our sins is not a "notion" ....

John 3:16

God IS love.

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Mark Quayle said:

Really?? I didn't say Jesus the atoning sacrifice for our sins is a notion. Quote all the verses you want: They still are seen by you through your filter, your lens, your notion.

I do the same, so don't even bother to go there. But besides the fact that God is First Cause, and so love proceeds from him, also God is love, and so love is defined by him, not by any understanding of ours.

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