Hummmm. I heard somewhere that God IS love. Why would that not automatically come up in any discussion of following Him?
I love God because He first loved me.......... Or was I supposed to determine if I was one of the "selected elected", before doing that?
Get with the program willie! Play the grace lottery today, ya never know.
Heres one dime from the great reformer luther:
"This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist."
What a character, all this coming from the same guy who brought us anti-semitic writings (used during WWII, he was a hero in germany), approved of getting drunk and even adviced another guy to do so, used words like "sin boldly" (of course its outta context, i already know). Yeah. The europeans switched one evil (indulgences etc) to another.
Luther was a complete weirdo, dont know why people wanna join a church with his name on it, even today the most liberal of the liberal churches dont dare say what Luther did.
I think the sin boldly comment came from the idea that salvation is purely positional, and not actually visible in anyway, this is what happens when ya let lawyers invent doctrines.
And Willie-T we rarely agree, but this time you are spot on, if it aint voluntarily love for God, it aint real love.