Can God love?

[KevinM1]

I do think it's interesting that Neo compared sinning to muddy shoes.  It's almost as though an all-powerful deity would simply be slightly inconvenienced by sin, and that a proper response to it isn't permanent banishment and eternal suffering....

The analogy is really pretty simple. It takes real effort to distort it like some here have done. The only thing preventing the child (anyone) from entering the house (the presence of God) is to clean-up. We make the choices and most choices have consequences. The concept of eternal torment versus blessedness is predicated on the idea that people cultivated lifelong habits of choose to cling to what they love, for better or worse, to the point that they cannot do otherwise than continue on going down the road they have chosen. If you love wearing muddy shoes more than a roof over your head and being with people who love you, then you will voluntarily stay outside with the rest of the belligerents. A similar analogy would be parents that refuse to enable their alcoholic adult child.

And yet, in both cases, the proper response isn't to simply throw the person out, letting them suffer in eternal torment....

Like I said, it's a shitty analogy, one that makes the opposite point than what you want.