The Love of my GOD is Steadfast, Enduring and Cannot Fail! How about your god?

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“And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.” (Mat 25:46 NRSVue)
(Did the steadfast love of the unchangeable God fail on those who going into eternal punishment? How can anyone go to hell if God loves everyone?)

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; (Lam 3:22 NRSVue)

For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psa 100:5 NRSVue)

O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever… O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. (Psa 136:1-26 NRSVue)

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you. (Isa 54:10 NRSVue)

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:38-39 NRSVue)

He was destined before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake. (1Pe 1:20 NRSVue)

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1Jn 4:9-10 NRSVue)

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. (Joh 13:1 NRSVue)

and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain. (Rev 13:8, RSV)

just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. (Eph 1:4 NRSVue) *Chosen to ‘be holy and blameless’, not because they were holy and blameless

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (Joh 15:19 KJV)

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. (Joh 17:6 KJV)

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Rev 5:9 KJV)

We are always bound to thank God for you, my friends beloved by the Lord. From the beginning of time God chose you to find salvation in the Spirit who consecrates you and in the truth you believe. (2Thess 2:13, REB)

THE WORDS QUOTED ARE FROM GOD, NOT FROM JOHN CALVIN.

 

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“And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.” (Mat 25:46 NRSVue)
(Did the steadfast love of the unchangeable God fail on those who going into eternal punishment? How can anyone go to hell if God loves everyone?)

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; (Lam 3:22 NRSVue)

For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psa 100:5 NRSVue)

O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever… O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. (Psa 136:1-26 NRSVue)

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you. (Isa 54:10 NRSVue)

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:38-39 NRSVue)

He was destined before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake. (1Pe 1:20 NRSVue)

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1Jn 4:9-10 NRSVue)

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. (Joh 13:1 NRSVue)

and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain. (Rev 13:8, RSV)

just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. (Eph 1:4 NRSVue) *Chosen to ‘be holy and blameless’, not because they were holy and blameless

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (Joh 15:19 KJV)

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. (Joh 17:6 KJV)

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Rev 5:9 KJV)

We are always bound to thank God for you, my friends beloved by the Lord. From the beginning of time God chose you to find salvation in the Spirit who consecrates you and in the truth you believe. (2Thess 2:13, REB)

THE WORDS QUOTED ARE FROM GOD, NOT FROM JOHN CALVIN.

This is a place for a careful look at the following verse, John 3:16, quoted from 2 translations.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16, KJV)

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. (Joh 3:16 NRSVue)

The Arminian claims that “world” here means every man, without exception. But the problem with that is first God’s everlasting, enduring love. In this verse “so loved”, certainly would mean an unchanging, everlasting love which is how God’s love is described. But Matt. 25:46 mentions those going into “eternal punishment” and Rev. 20:15 says some were thrown into “the lake of fire” at the last day. God’s love, which is steadfast, enduring, everlasting seems to have missed those people.

Of course, the gospel of Jesus Christ did not arrive in the New World, the Americas, for centuries after the cross. But we must remember Paul’s verse:

But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? (Rom 10:14 NRSVue) *Did Jesus Christ die for those in the Americas, which never will hear? There were people in the New World at that time.

Jesus told the Pharisee Nicodemus that God loved the world, not just Jews, Israel; but God loved the world of nations. Paul gives us that meaning for “world”

So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling salvation has come to the gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their stumbling means riches for the world and if their loss means riches for gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! (Rom 11:11-12 NRSVue) *world = gentiles

Then John in the book of Revelation made it clear what he meant by “world” as it means including other nations along with Jews:

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation; (Rev 5:9 NRSVue)

Scroll down to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary and you find 24 definitions for the word “world”.

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In the Thayer, there are, if I remember right, 8 different meanings of the word world/kosmos in the NT.

It is up to the Arminian to remove the contradictions in his idea that world means ever individual without exception. Let the proponents of free will show why world in Jn 3:16 means all without exception.