RE: Are faith, God and love without deeds, dead?
April 9, 2012 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2012 at 6:08 pm by R-e-n-n-a-t.)
(April 9, 2012 at 6:01 pm)Godschild Wrote: God's unconditional love has nothing to do with us, God's unconditional love was before creation. If it were not, God would have never created a people that was going to disobey Him and reject Him. Would you bring home a dog that you knew would bite you every time you feed it, I think not, your love is not unconditional. Then why would God create us, His unconditional love for us allows Him to accept the disobedience of His creation, and more importantly He is able to redeem us. We however will not forgive a dog that bites us every day, so there is no redemption for the dog.
Also you said that at the every least man should tell others he loves them, and said that is works. Let me remind you, Jesus nowhere in scripture says that lip serves is work or deeds.
If there is ever a point from beyond which no salvation is possible, then love is not unconditional. For example, assume for a moment that I went to Hell. If the love of a supposed deity was unconditional, I would be able to ask for and recieve forgiveness even after being sentenced to Hell. Otherwise, the love is not unconditional- there is at least one condition, the condition that I was not already sentenced to an eternity of Hell.
