God does terrible things, but I want God to be loving. Those terrible things must be justified for God to be loving. I will call those terrible things just, therefore God is loving.
That's my synopsis of the OP, 3rd paragraph:
That's my synopsis of the OP, 3rd paragraph:
(September 24, 2016 at 3:38 pm)Lek Wrote: Anyway, the way that I link my view of universal reconciliation with the supposedly unloving and unfair God of the old testament is that, though we must all suffer the consequences of a sinful world, the punishment aspect has been overridden by God through the atonement of those sins by Jesus Christ. We no longer need to suffer the punishment for our sins, which is eternal death, but we must suffer the suffer consequences of a sinful world, even as an innocent child must suffer consequences of a parent who screwed up the child's life. For eternity, though, we will be with our creator sharing in his love in a perfect existence. This is whether we had an easy death from drowning or being run through with a sword, as the did the victims of the old testament catastrophes, or whether we died a slow and painful death, as did so many others who were not victims of those. To me, this really brings together the loving, yet just, God of both the old and the new testaments.
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