1st John 4:19

1st John 4:19 
We love, because He first loved us.

Dave Hunt: “If all men are required to love God, and if we can only love Him because He first loved us, God must love all men.” (Debating Calvinism, p.48, emphasis mine) 

Additionally, John 16:27 states: “‘For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.’”

So God loves us enough to give the greatest gift that He could ever give, which is the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, and for those who love His Son, it is added that God loves you. So this testifies to the fact that there are levels, types and kinds of love from God. The question is whether there is any level, type or kind of love that could be expressed in eternally and unconditionally predestining someone to Hell. No Calvinist has ever been able to express that in any reasonable way.

Calvinist, James White: “There is no basis in the Bible for asserting that God’s love knows no levels, kinds, or types. Just the opposite is true.” (Debating Calvinism, p.267) 

James White: “Let the reader understand: The heart of Dave Hunt’s argument denies to God the freedom to love in different forms and fashions.” (Debating Calvinism, p.269) 

Dave Hunt responds: “Calvinists say that God loves those He predestines to hell, but with a ‘different kind of love.’ To provide sunshine and rain in this brief life for those predestined to eternal suffering is a manifestation of God’s love? What madness is this?” (Debating Calvinism, p.273, emphasis mine) 

Dave Hunt: “I’ve never said that ‘God lacks the ability to discriminate in the kind and nature of the love He exercises’ or that He is ‘less free than His creatures in the matter of how He loves.’ But ‘freedom’ to love can’t justify not loving at all. No one can say that God loves those He could save but instead damns eternally for His ‘good pleasure.’” (Debating Calvinism, p.273) 

Dave Hunt: “Never have I heard, much less uttered, the alleged ‘mantralike chant that God is not free to love a particular people redemptively.’ God is free to love anyone in any way He pleases. But love is loving.” (Debating Calvinism, p.275) 

Hunt concludes: “Only a Calvinist could believe that God loves those He has predestined to eternal suffering!” (Debating Calvinism, p.48, emphasis mine)