I didn’t say that God was like a Father seeking to rip apart his child...I said it was to get his attention to try to save him from the evil path.!
God is love...but it can be like the emergent use of a surgeon’s scalpel without benefit of anesthesia. Yes tact can be useful if there is time and place for it. Gods word is sharper than any two edged sword dividing asunder soul from spirit. Such a dividing is not always emotionally kindly at first, but it is saving!
Judas accused Jesus of having no love when he allowed perfume to be poured upon himself.(That perfume could have been sold and money given to the poor...as per Judas)It was shall we say in your terms a “karmic” accusation that was no doubt tragically wounding to the loving nature of Christ who had spoken of a coming betrayal and of the lostness of the person who would betray him.
You accuse me of having no love...don’t deny it, the drive by accusation echoes in the walls and chambers!
So here is MY assertion...you have an open invitation to the wedding feast of the Lamb only you keep trying to bring spiritual and/or philisophical Eastern Mystical “guests” along with you who would never be invited! They have to go thru the gate of Christ and be vetted, but these “guests” would never be allowed thru! The way is narrow. Acts 17:16 thru 34 explains it all!
Enough said on my part...Mike Mathis of Central Virginia...you can have the last word!
Next to last.
GOD is going to have the last one:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 KJV
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
“You accuse me of having no love...don’t deny it, the drive by accusation echoes in the walls and chambers!”
I would never say that as it is not true. If I in anyway insinuated that, my apologies, as I don’t believe it.