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Who Does God Love?

oscar3 said:
Mutz
Why don't you go back and answer Solo's questions?
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Oh you mean there is more to it than the heading? I'd better go and read what Solo has written then, but I've got a feeling I've summed it up - but I will check.
 
Quath said:
This is a set of questions where I am trying to understand how people see God's love. It is confusing to me because God's actions to not show love from what I see. So I am curious as to how a Christian sees love in God in spite of his actions.

1. Does God love everyone?
I hear this a lot, but it doesn't seem Biblically sound. For example, Hosea 9:11-16 mentions that God hates some people.

2. Does God love the innocents?
God orders the innocent children at Jericho (and other places) to be killed with swords. Does God love these children?

3. Can you torture the one you love?
This kind of goes with the above question. If God loved those children and he ordered them to die a horrible, painful death, does that mean that you can kill in a painful way those you love?

4. Does God love you as much as he loves the children of Jericho?
If he does, do you worry he will do to you as he did to them?
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I love my son. But if my son does wrong I punish him. In hopes of him being afraid to repeat the bad behavior and developing better behavioral habits so his life will be better. Because I love him.
If my son murders I want him to be sentenced to death through the courts
by the law of the land.
This does not mean I do not love him. I love what is right in the eyes of God more than I love anything else.

God bless,
Carey
 
Jericho's cup

Gen15:16b . . .for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.

In a dream Abraham was told his descendants would be slaves in Egypt for 400 years until the iniquity of the Amorites was completed. It was only then that God acted in judgement against them.

One can picture a cup called 'iniquity' being slowly and gradually filled. I am inclined to think that Jericho's cup was full and their time was up and so Jericho was destroyed.

blessing: stranger
 
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