Luke 12:7
Luke 12:4-7
I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him! Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Question: Are the alleged, non-elect, valuable to God? Are they valuable enough for Jesus to die for them, so that they can be saved?
Answer: 5-Point Calvinists are stuck saying, No. Yet, the text says that the very hairs on our head are numbered. The whole idea of fearing God being able to cast a soul in Hell is meant to affect behavior. But according to the logic required by 5-Point Calvinism, an alleged non-elect person has no Savior who died for them, and so how should the fear of being cast into Hell affect their behavior? Again, logically, no one would have died for them, in order to avoid it. (However, to a Calvinist, no one can know who the alleged non-elect are, and since they cannot know this, perhaps it could move them to affect their behavior.) Conversely, for Calvinism’s elect, why should they fear being cast into Hell, since they are Unconditionally Elect? (Now to a Calvinist, they claim that they can know for certain if they are one of Calvinism’s secret elect or not, and so why should this fear of being cast into Hell affect their behavior, either? One of the problems of Calvinism is that it creates rather awkward meanings to certain verses, such as Matthew 16:26.)
We don’t make ourselves valuable to God. We are valuable to God simply because He values us, as His children, just as any child is valuable to their parents.
