God's Love Always Saves

God's love always saves.

Think about that statement for a moment.

Do you agree with it?

Let me help.

Do you believe God loves everyone in some sense?

Do you believe some people will perish in hell?

If the answer to the above two is "yes", then you believe that God's love doesn't always save.

Then let me ask you:

Do you believe that God is almighty (can do all things)?

If so, why doesn't He save everyone He loves?

If you answer, "because of Free Will", then ask yourself:

If God is almighty, couldn't He make it so that everyone would freely and willingly trust Christ and be saved?


An (imperfect) analogy might help:

Imagine a woman who suffers from bipolar disease. She is married, and one day her and her husband go swimming in the ocean. They swim too far out. He is a strong swimmer, but she begins to drown. Immediately, he comes to help her. But being currently in a really depressed mood, she irrationally tells him to leave her alone.

Even though he knows full well that she was simply in a "down" mood and would of course never reject his help when normal, he says "well, I love you, but if that's what you want..."

Then he watches her drown, shedding some tears and expressing his love for her.

Since she was being irrational, would you not have saved her against her will, knowing that when she came to her sense, she would thank you heartily?

And now comes the moral of the story:

Did he really love her?

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Finally, most importantly, where in God's Word does it teach that God's love always saves?

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39.

Notice: Nothing you can possibly think of (including "free will") can separate from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus.

Hell is the absence of God's love. There is only His wrath.

Therefore, God can never throw anyone into hell that He loves.

And Scripture clearly testifies that God hates some sinners, and not just their sin:

"The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth." Psalm 5:5 (c.f. Psalm 11:5, Rom 9:13)

In short, God loves those who are saved despite of their sin, and He justly hates those humans who perish in hell in the way of their sins. This love for the elect He testifies to all the world by infallibly and graciously saving them, while He testifies His hatred for the reprobate by justly sending them to hell for their sins.

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And how do I know He loves me? And how can you know He loves you, without a shadow of a doubt?

"For God so loved the world, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life", John 3:16.

I know I am part of the world that God loves because I believe on him, and trust in His Son alone for my salvation.

This is my only comfort. In life and in death.

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For further reading on the question of God's love, please click here.

P.S.: I wholeheartedly believe God loves the world (John 3:16a), that is, the world of those who believe, the "whosoever believeth" of the second half of that verse. I also believe Caesar Augustus actually taxed the world (Luke 2:1). This is further explained in the above link.