Is telling someone "Jesus loves you" a true statement?

[I am a olive tree]

"Jesus loves you" is a blanket statement used all the time. Can Jesus love someone if He does not know them? "The Lord God loves you" is always a true statement. "Jesus saves" is always a true statement. If I tell the lost person "Jesus loves you." Would I be deceiving them?

 

[WIP]

"Jesus loves you" is a blanket statement used all the time. Can Jesus love someone if He does not know them? "The Lord God loves you" is always a true statement. "Jesus saves" is always a true statement. If I tell the lost person "Jesus loves you." Would I be deceiving them?

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:1-2, 5 NKJV

For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 139:13-16 ESV

When we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Romans 5:6-10 NKJV

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:9-10 NKJV

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 3:16-17 NKJV

 

[I am a olive tree]

Are these verses not saying, that Jesus is the Lord Gods expression of Love for the world?

 

[electedbyHim]

Here is a concise answer from Gotquestions.org

There is a sense in which God loves everyone in the whole world (John 3:16; 1 John 2:2; Romans 5:8). This love is not conditional—it is rooted in God’s character and based on the fact that He is a God of love (1 John 4:8, 16). God’s love for everyone could be thought of as His “merciful love,” since it results in the fact that God does not immediately punish people for their sins (Romans 3:23; 6:23). “Your Father in heaven . . . causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45). This is another example of God’s love for everyone—His merciful love, His benevolence extended to everyone, not just to Christians.

God’s merciful love for the world is also manifested in that God gives people the opportunity to repent: “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise. . . . Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). God’s unconditional love is related to His general call to salvation and what is often called His permissive or perfect will—that aspect of God’s will that reveals His attitude and defines what is pleasing to Him.

However, God’s love for everyone does not mean that everyone will be saved (see Matthew 25:46). God will not ignore sin, for He is a God of justice (2 Thessalonians 1:6). Sin cannot go unpunished forever (Romans 3:25–26). If God simply disregarded sin and allowed it to continue to wreak havoc in creation forever, then He would not be love. To ignore God’s merciful love, to reject Christ, or to deny the Savior who bought us (2 Peter 2:1) is to subject ourselves to God’s wrath for eternity (Romans 1:18), not His love.

The love of God that justifies sinners is not extended to everyone, only to those who have faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). The love of God that brings people into intimacy with Himself is not extended to everyone, only to those who love the Son of God (John 14:21). This love could be thought of as God’s “covenant love,” and it is conditional, given only to those who place their faith in Jesus for salvation (John 3:36). Those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are loved unconditionally, securely, forever.

Does God love everyone? Yes, He shows mercy and kindness to all. Does God love Christians more than He loves non-Christians? No, not in regards to His merciful love. Does God love Christians in a different way than He loves non-Christians? Yes; because believers have exercised faith in God’s Son, they are saved. God has a unique relationship with Christians in that only Christians have forgiveness based on God’s eternal grace. The unconditional, merciful love God has for everyone should bring us to faith, receiving with gratefulness the conditional, covenant love He grants those who receive Jesus Christ as Savior.

 

[JLB]

"Jesus loves you" is a blanket statement used all the time. Can Jesus love someone if He does not know them? "The Lord God loves you" is always a true statement. "Jesus saves" is always a true statement. If I tell the lost person "Jesus loves you." Would I be deceiving them?

The Father and His Son Jesus Christ, love the world.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16

The world.

What person of the world is excluded from God’s love?

 

[I am a olive tree]

No person of the world is excluded from the love of the Lord God. But if a sinner hears Jesus loves you their whole life and never believes or repents. What will they hear at judgement? Are we not deceiving a lost person by telling them Jesus loves them?

 

[electedbyHim]

No person of the world is excluded from the love of the Lord God. But if a sinner hears Jesus loves you their whole life and never believes or repents. What will they hear at judgement? Are we not deceiving a lost person by telling them Jesus loves them?

Depart fom me, I never knew you.

We must understand that the Love of God is nothing like or near to what humans believe love is.

Too many Christians do not have a proper understanding of the love of God.

 

[I am a olive tree]

Depart fom me, I never knew you.

We must understand that the Love of God is nothing like or near to what humans believe love is.

Too many Christians do not have a proper understanding of the love of God.

Can Jesus love you if He never knew you? The bible tells me what love is, 1 corithians 13:4-8. I can't love anyone like the Lord God does but I understand what real love is. According to what the bible says about love. I don't believe Jesus can love the lost because He does not know them until they believe and Repent.

 

[electedbyHim]

Can Jesus love you if He never knew you? The bible tells me what love is, 1 corithians 13:4-8. I can't love anyone like the Lord God does but I understand what real love is. According to what the bible says about love. I don't believe Jesus can love the lost because He does not know them until they believe and Repent.

God's love is a huge doctrine.

You could always start with this verse...

Romans 9:13 Just as it is written, “JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED.

Then you have this verse.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

I happen to believe He does love the unregenerate.

Again, I do not believe we can fathom His love and how He works.