Nonsense. I held the Arminian view for over 30 years. I understand perfectly well the “God loves us and wants the best for us” concept. Election, predestination, hell, and God’ wrath, jealousy, and anger are never talked about. God’s goodness, mercy, love are stress. God loves everyone. The trouble is the Bible doesn’t support it. It’s a manmade doctrine designed to fashion God into the image we would like. We might as well throw gold into the fire and say, “Here is your God who delivered you out of Egypt.”
It didn’t take me long to change when I discovered my error. I only had to reread the Bible and look at the history. I’ll stay on this side of the fence. Believe me, on this side of the fence I find more love from God than I ever found on the other side and I’m secure knowing God is in control-not me.
Lok I don't know anything about you, but apparently love did not appeal to you. I would say that perhaps it has to do with the fact that you went from one man-made church to another, but not to the Church established by our Lord.
You believe in a book that the Church created for you, after paintsakingly searching and studying some 200 plus texts that were in circulation, of which only 29 were selcted as inspired. Obviously the Church did not know its Scripture! But you do! Much better than the Church.
You are part of a group that believes that each and every one of you the right interpretor of Scripture, yet not a single one of you agrees fully with each other. For a people who say all you have to do is read the Bible, the Protestants sure write an awful lot of books about the Bible! Why, when the Protestants claim that even children can understand Scripture?! Hmmmm.
But, while kind of love can you find in a group that teaches self-interpretation as the alpha and the omega of faith? I would say self-love, my friend. It's sad that it took you 30 years to discover that there was no love (or perhaps not enough hate) in your Armeinian assembly. Now you find love in a Church that predestines people to death, to damnation, and to hell simply because they are superfluous creatures of God.
That's sad. May God open your heart.