Does anyone love me?
Topic or Scripture
Claim
Calvinism tends toward destruction of feeling loved.
Refuting Calvinism
Calvinism claims (incorrectly, thank God!) most people to be doomed to damnation from birth with no hope. Fortunately, there really is hope! But - and this is where Calvinism gets this totally wrong - not according to Calvinism. This obviously might lead some who believe this to be true, toward despair.
For some people who might feel unloved by people, there could be hope that at least God loves them. Calvinism destroys such hope of love. Example: one person upon realizing the implications of Calvinism, cried for 18 hours.
This is not the gospel! This is not good news. Calvinism says, you most likely are created by God for "the day of evil" for God's glory, to be dammed. Although some Calvinists argue that God still loves even those He has ordained to destruction, such theological post-hoc rationalizations do little to help comfort real people who feel unloved, and are no substitute for love.
Some Calvinists use as examples of the non-elect, those committing extremely wicked deeds and false teachers, while ignoring their own belief that the vast majority of so-called ordinary people, who are not false teachers nor committers of extremely wicked deeds, are still totally doomed by God's sovereign plan and in effect not loved by God. They tend to say that God loves the non-elect, but in a different way than the elect. Telling someone who is rejected that they are still loved, while maintaining the rejection, does little to comfort or to help them feel loved.
It can be argued that God loves people even though He sends them to damnation. This is not the whole point. Those people are also doomed with no hope of repenting, and unable to repent - by their nature, which nature is ordained by God. Now, would we say God still loves those people? We need to redefine love to say so.
One of the saddest feelings is the feeling that no one loves me. This sadness is one of the fruits of Calvinism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCvzeMmDojY
Supporting Calvinism
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