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Originally Posted by Bluegreen
It is the only law that matters. Love God, thy neighbour--all of creation.
Whenever I read that God or Jesus will punish and send people to Hell, I mentally drop out because it so contradicts the message of love.
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It doesn't contradict the message of love. It is simply the consequence of our failure to obey God's commands to love.
God didn't just tell us to love him, but to love him with
all of our heart and mind.
He didn't just tell us to love our neighbor, but to love our neighbor
as ourselves.
Do your love for God and for your neighbor measure up to those standards? If not, then you have violated God's greatest commands.
Look at
how God shows his love for us.
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 ESV
Have you ever thought about why God would express his love by allowing his son to die for us? It is because we have fallen short of his standards and deserve death as a result. God is not only a God of love but is also a holy God whose nature can't allow sin to go unpunished. Jesus died to pay for our sins so that he could forgive us and still preserve his holiness.
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:23-26 ESV