†... Good morning Mark...†
You said in regards to God:
Unconditional love means that someone loves you regardless of everything.
Regardless of any sin, any fault, anything at all.
You are right Mark, that is exactly how He love us all!
There is no eternal torture for anyone, only eternal glory and peace for those who come to the truth of Christ. I will elaborate on this further as soon as I get the chance, if you are interested....Hopefully still yet today.
There are no conditions on His Love......But there are conditions on living in eternal glory with Him.
Do you love your kids Mark? Will you ever stop loving them?
Do you have rules and guide lines that they are asked to follow?
Do you advise them as a loving parent as to those things in life which will help them along the way?
Do you set limits as to how far they can stray from home?
If they go beyond those limits, do you forgive them anyway?
How about curfews? Do you have any?
Are your children expected to obey them?
Do you restrict their privileges when and if they defy you, even continually?
Do you forgive them when they say I'm sorry, and really mean it?
Do they sometimes think you, or some of your house rules are unfair?
I trust that as a good father you do all the above...and never stop loving them.
Or are your children allowed to run the streets at all hours, and do exactly as they please all the time.
Would you like it if they rebelled totally and decided to live with a friends parents, because their parents had no real rules?
Or maybe they just had more money that you and could buy them more things?
Or maybe they believed their friends parents just had a better philosophy on life.
And I'm willing to bet that even if they did run out on you to some other that you would still love them.... in spite of all their rebelling....
You get the point by now Mark, don't you?
Mark do yourself a favor, a big favor, stop thinking in terms of torture when it comes to God and His love for the world. Torture is your concept of what happens to those who refuse to believe that Christ is the messiah! It may be that you have listened to those who have a very inaccurate understanding of ....What becomes of the soul who at the end, has not received the truth of Jesus!
Your understanding of the end is also probably flawed.
I will get back to you on this ASAP Ok?
Shalom...><>
BTW...It was tuna! Just as you suspected. |
