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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (12328)5/15/2002 11:12:57 AM
From: Grandk  Read Replies (3) of 28931
 
The problem, of course, is that while a capricious and feckless God might be feared, He could never be worthy of respect, much less worship... While professing belief in a God of unconditional love every aspect of most theology is permeated to the core with a message of conditional love at every turn. Thus does man create God in his own image.


Hell is an ugly term. I do not like it, but I must except it. Rejecting one part of God's word leads me down a path to where I will begin to create my own religion and fall into the trap the likes of the New Age movement. Anyway, for one to focus on hell as a means of convincing another of the benefits of Christianity seems ridiculous to me. If you perform a word search of the Bible using the word hell you will come up with perhaps 20 passages. Now perform a search for the word love and you will find at least 10x the amount of scripture. These would lead me to believe that the focus of a Christian's message should be on love and not hell.

God's love is unconditional. However, salvation is not. His love is there for all. It does not lessen nor grow according to what man does. God is no respecter of persons and His love is extended to all who except it. But, right there you see that it can be conditional on our part. God's love is unconditional. However, receiving it is not because we have free will.
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