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To: MarMema
Psalm 5
4For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness,
Nor shall evil dwell with You.
5The boastful shall not stand in Your sight;
You hate all workers of iniquity.
6You shall destroy those who speak falsehood;
The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Why do you find it so distasteful that God doesn't love everybody, but hates the workers of iniquity as God's Word says?

I suggest that you read into Scripture your own philosophy which reflects your own feelings.

24 posted on 06/16/2004 8:16:25 AM PDT by redeemed_by_His_blood
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To: redeemed_by_His_blood
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the expiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His own Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son as the Savior of the World. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.

We love, because He first loved us.
(I John 4:7-19)

26 posted on 06/16/2004 8:24:52 AM PDT by MarMema (Up, up, up, there's nowhere to go from here but up.)
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To: redeemed_by_His_blood
"I suggest that you read into Scripture your own philosophy which reflects your own feelings."

The irony is fascinating.

JM
27 posted on 06/16/2004 8:25:36 AM PDT by JohnnyM
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To: redeemed_by_His_blood

The way to Mt Zion goes by way of Mt Sinai...we are to stare at Sinai to learn our sins and learn of God's awesome glory...then at some point we must turn and travel straight ahead to Mt Zion(where there is peace and grace)...we must keep our eyes fixed straight ahead lest we fall off the path and gaze upon Sinai again and suffer its judgments.

Christians were never meant to stay at Sinai gazing at laws written on stone; we were meant for Zion with God's laws written on hearts of flesh, and regenerated by the Holy Spirit!


69 posted on 06/16/2004 1:39:23 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (The Democrats must be defeated in 2004)
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