(June 30, 2015 at 9:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(June 30, 2015 at 9:07 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: That's ultimately for your creator to decide.
But if you want to examine your own conscience, did you show them how the people who created these fears in them were misinterpreting a handful of the scriptures? Or did you help them to understand the whole of the Bible which is very clear on how much God loves us?
My friend's Dad made it clear how much he loved him, right before he whipped him with a lawn mower cord in grade one. God's love seems pretty similar-- he's so full of love, except for the part where he punishes those who dare cross him or disbelieve, and not only themselves, but their descendents to the fourth generation.
If that's what love is, then God needs therapy.
Above, you wrote, "God's love seems [emphasis added]...".
Are you speaking of your own personal experience of God's love? Or is this just what you've read about in books and you actually have no personal experience of God at all?