Does God love us all equally, or does he have his favourite chosen few?
Both. God loves all equally but approves of the actions of some more than others. God loves all people unconditionally. This means there are no conditions needed to be met to merit His love. God loves the worst sinner just as much as He loves the best saint. Being Love, God can do nothing else. This does not mean that He approves of all of our actions. There is a fundamental difference between love and approval. Some people call this “love the sinner, hate the sin.” Anyone who states, “God hates these people or those people” does not understand basic Christianity. Here are a couple of quotes about God as Love from C. S. Lewis that I really like: “He [God] has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. …. Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved; … mere “kindness” which tolerates anything except suffering in its object is, in that respect, at the opposite pole from Love.” “You ask for a loving God; you h
