Post date: Aug 23, 2016 3:47:04 AM
Well ...
Thus God loved the kosmos , once in the past, by the act of giving His only begotten Son, in the death and in the resurrection of the cross, so that those who believe and keep on believing will not be destroyed (by God), but have everlasting life.
This is HOW the love of God saves us, not WHY it saves. John 3 16 does not give us the REASON of salvation but the MECHANISM of salvation. God did not send His Son because He loved all humans personally and individually. He sent His Son as an act of love to the whole kosmos by which certain people, who comply with the terms on conditions, will be saved.