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I have used some of Ask Mr. Religion's unbiblical, and just plain absurd, statements to create some custom "Smile, Jesus loves you" slogans for use by the discriminating Calvinism huckster who just cannot tell which particular persons Jesus particularly atoned for (because, according to Calvinism, "God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain" that Calvinists should be thoroughly ignorant, in this world, at least, as to which persons are elect and which persons are non-elect).
"Smile, Jesus (in some sense) loves you, and He also may or may not perfectly hate you"
"Smile, Jesus (in some sense) loves you as a man"
"Smile, Jesus loves you as effectually as He loves the elect, and He also may or may not have predestined you to burn in hell"
"Smile, Jesus loves you, although He may or may not purpose to express to you His love in a saving way"
"Smile, Jesus loves you, and He may or may not have purposed to make you an object of wrath"
"Smile, Jesus loves you, but He may or may not love you with a peculiar redeeming love"
"Smile, Jesus loves you, but He may or may not delight to save you"
God does not love the reprobate as such, for reprobation required perfect hatred.
"Smile, Jesus (in some sense) loves you, and He also may or may not perfectly hate you"
God must have loved men as men, otherwise He would not have made them men.
"Smile, Jesus (in some sense) loves you as a man"
The love God shows to men as men is as effectual as the love He shows the elect.
"Smile, Jesus loves you as effectually as He loves the elect, and He also may or may not have predestined you to burn in hell"
It is simply that God does not purpose to express His love in a saving way to all men.
"Smile, Jesus loves you, although He may or may not purpose to express to you His love in a saving way"
He purposes to make some men objects of wrath...
"Smile, Jesus loves you, and He may or may not have purposed to make you an object of wrath"
He also, of course, hates Esau (Romans 9:6-13), meaning that God does not love the reprobate with a peculiar redeeming love as He does the elect, whom He delights to save.
"Smile, Jesus loves you, but He may or may not love you with a peculiar redeeming love"
"Smile, Jesus loves you, but He may or may not delight to save you"