My daughter’s best friend since high school is a Jewish woman named Sarah. They were in each other’s weddings. Daighter and I both live in Spokane now because Sarah and her family live here. They have a beautiful house in the best part of town and we often go to dinner there. Thanksgiving was great. Lots of people, and little kids running around, both Christian and Jewish
I was raised Catholic, and my mother told me every day when I was a little girl, “You’re going to hell for that.” and “God will punish you for that”. I grew up believing that God was a mean old man in the sky who hated me. Went to Catholic high school and college. Nothing changed..
Went to a Synagogue several years ago in London while visiting Jewish friends.. God didn’t hate me there. Amazing.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
I don’t know about the Catholic church but in the Southern Baptist church, God loves you.