Can God love?

[Drich]

It makes me worry about the kind of "love" people have received, and what kind they might pass on, if they think the character in the bible is loving.

still do not understand the term as anything different than what you've always known.

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"God is love" is a sick joke. "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you", is little more than propaganda to cover up God's true nature. It's a bit rich, don't you think, coming from the mouth of someone--Jesus--who would send most (if not all) of human beings that ever lived to hell? The god of the Bible is a dangerous deity and deserves to die. That is to say, belief in the biblical god is dangerous to one's mental and moral health and deserves to fade from memory.

Because you like rob value do not understand the word agape.

Agape' you lord god with all of your being or be separated from Him and be consumed by the fire of Hell so you and people like you can not bring sin and disruption to God's people or any other part of His creation.

What you 'good people' don't get is if you are too proud to simply seek atonement you are actively working for sin, as such there is no difference between you and an isis fighter seeking to destroy what does not align itself with their religious views. So God separated those who want to serve and love Him from those who don't.

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god is love is another mental crutch. Just like all of the other "god is .........".

And theoretical science isn't? 

Here get this: 100 trillion years ago there was nothing except in the center of what would be a the known universe. and in that center was a basket ball... a basket ball solid of course because in that basket ball contained all matter all planets all oceans all stars everything! then it exploded the uncaused cause for no reason despite what would be an unfathomable amount of gravity caused an outward explosion!!

And all the small minds said amen, tell me more because that is soooo much more plausible than any part of creation.

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If we're to expect that a god must be love in order to count a a god, and the abrahamic god is one of the most bloodthirsty and violent beings ever written about, then maybe we can safely say that he just isn't a god, and isn't worth worshiping because Yahweh/Jehova isn't loving. Not in any sense that we understand as healthy, and if he's beyond our understanding, then we can't be certain of any claim about him.

look beyond your use of the word love. when you do you will see that 'love' in the bible was never intended to be used as you use the word. "love" in the biblical sense also describes the use of punishment, and protection from those who would do you harm. Bet you mordern day douche bags can not fathom a love that would demand a switch being used. Therfore your idea of 'love' has nothing to do with how the bible uses the term. so change your word or use the biblical term so you do not falsely compare the two terms.

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That;s a really silly way to agree with the atheists, Drich.

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To be blunt, every christian response in this thread has been a deplorable failure of your shared christology..each in turn tripping over yourselves and each other to declare god incapable of love as fully as a human being..forgetting that christ was..himself, fully human.  Personally, I think that's emblematic of the problem creeping in with certain cults of christerism...entirely losing their human angle.

that's a silly way to say you don't understand what is being discussed Kimie-cal.