Jn 3:16 The distinguishing Love of God for the Elect !
Those who have corrupted the word of God, take a scripture like Jn 3:16 and force it to say or mean that God Loves all men without exception, even though that's not what it says or means. The Truth of scripture however states and demonstrates that His Love is distinguishing and its only to His Elect ! Deut 7:6-8
6For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Christ, who is God, is said to Love the Church [World] Eph 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church[The Elect], and gave himself for it;
These are certainly not everyone in the world without exception. The Church are the Chosen of Eph 1:4, which are the Chosen of Deut 7:6-8. Remember God told His Chosen there that they were His Chosen Possession Deut 7:6 " the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself"
Now the word special is the hebrew word cĕgullah and means:
) possession, property
a) valued property, peculiar treasure
b) treasure
Now the same things are said in Eph 1:4 [Chosen] and Eph 1:18
18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
The word inheritance is the greek word klēronomia:
an inheritance, property received (or to be received) by inheritance
2) what is given to one as a possession
a) the eternal blessedness of the consummated kingdom of God which is to be expected after the visible return of Christ
b) the share which an individual will have in that eternal blessedness
So this being God's Chosen inheritance in Deut 7:6-7 was because of them being designated by the Father, when He chose us in Christ. 4