@EsQ: That's great that you're good. As God is pure good then no one, not even you (no disrespect), comes up to that standard. Not getting to that standard limits your potential to get the most out of life. You're focusing on the just consequences of being bad. Of course this has to be so, or there isn't justice. Once a person has made good, then their punishment ends. This applies to the present, but has to be fully realised in the afterlife. Because as you know, life isn't fair.
Love is God, because no matter what, he still loves you. God won't force you to worship him, but nothing would make you happier than to do so. That's what God wants for you: the best you can be.
Do you think that the Jews were wrong in concluding that God is good then? They get this from the same text that you draw the opposite conclusion.
Love is God, because no matter what, he still loves you. God won't force you to worship him, but nothing would make you happier than to do so. That's what God wants for you: the best you can be.
Do you think that the Jews were wrong in concluding that God is good then? They get this from the same text that you draw the opposite conclusion.