[Jerry_M]

You didn't answer my question, love towards who? (How can you have "love" without an object? How would you define a love that has no object? "God is love", but what does that mean apart from the one who is loved?)

Could it be that God's jealousy for His glory is related to His love for self, and that the Calvinist's emphasis on the sovereignty and glorification of God is our best way to recognize that love?

[CCWoody]

Could it be that God's jealousy for His glory is related to His love for self, and that the Calvinist's emphasis on the sovereignty and glorification of God is our best way to recognize that love?

Here is a question for you xzins. I bring this up because Stanley Jones completely missed this in his book: Does God ever ask us to do anything that He Himself will not do?

He would violate his own nature in doing so. For God never asks us to do anything that he himself is not doing. ~ Stanley Jones

Now, in the narrow confines of what Jones was discussing, he was correct, God did exactly as he asks us. But does God ever ask us to do something--anything--that He Himself is not doing?

Yes, the question is related to what we are talking about. And I'll stipulate right up front that the Calvinist answer is YES.