God IS Love.... [Archive] - TheologyWeb Campus

seer

September 16th 2005, 06:09 PM

Nang

September 16th 2005, 06:34 PM

Love is a central attribute of God. No less than His goodness or righteousness. God could no more treat His creatures in an unloving manner than He could treat them unjustly. And if you think He could deny His very nature and treat a creature unlovingly then you MUST believe it is possible that God could violate His just nature and treat a creature unjustly... It logically follows...

If you want to contribute your thoughts on a subject, why don't you join in the conversation on threads that are presently discussing the subject? Give your opinions within that developed context.

Why are you always starting new threads?

If posters want to respond to you, they are forced to repeat themselves and reiterate what they may have put up only ten minutes earlier.

Nang

Thomas2003

September 17th 2005, 11:37 PM

If you want to contribute your thoughts on a subject, why don't you join in the conversation on threads that are presently discussing the subject? Give your opinions within that developed context.

Why are you always starting new threads?

If posters want to respond to you, they are forced to repeat themselves and reiterate what they may have put up only ten minutes earlier.

Nang

It's guerilla warfare tactics, it's practiced when one can no longer effectively defend themselves, the idea is to go along and throw seeming grenades into peaceful areas and disturb the peace. Hopefully you'll get a few casualties in the process. In the Apologetics thread is a humanist that is doing the same thing with the screen name "whoweepsforkirk."

Kevin Wayne

September 18th 2005, 12:58 AM

Personally I think Seer has every right to raise whatever issues he wants to at any time in any place. At least as much as Colossians has a right to go running around from website to website posting the same questions over & over again... :ahem:

ollie

September 18th 2005, 06:54 AM

Love is a central attribute of God. No less than His goodness or righteousness. God could no more treat His creatures in an unloving manner than He could treat them unjustly. And if you think He could deny His very nature and treat a creature unlovingly then you MUST believe it is possible that God could violate His just nature and treat a creature unjustly... It logically follows...God loves through His justice. He punishes evil and rewards goodness. He is just to mete out according to His will, his promise. God is never unjust in His love, but judges according to His law. Today it is the law of Christ, the perfect law of liberty, the law of faith. Man is ill advised to gauge and measure God's love by human understanding/reasoning of love.

ollie

Kevin Wayne

September 18th 2005, 05:19 PM

God loves through His justice. He punishes evil and rewards goodness. He is just to mete out according to His will, his promise. God is never unjust in His love, but judges according to His law. Today it is the law of Christ, the perfect law of liberty, the law of faith. Man is ill advised to gauge and measure God's love by human understanding/reasoning of love.

ollie

But never wrong to look at the actions of God to see if there are in them something we can model ourselves after in order to obey the Love Commandment.

Assistant Junior Deputy Janitor Analogman

September 18th 2005, 07:17 PM

Man is ill advised to gauge and measure God's love by human understanding/reasoning of love.

Good point. However, we don't have to. The definition has been given to us.

1 Corinthians 13:

4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.