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To: Buggman; xzins; P-Marlowe; RnMomof7; Dr. Eckleburg

Buggman:"If you don't believe that God can love even those He must condemn, then your God's heart is too small. Me, I think God can surpass me in all things, including loving His enemies."

If God loves those in Hell, could you give me one demonstration of His love for them? God does not just love without action - that would defy the definition of love. You cannot just say God loves those in hell without some evidence that He acts for their benefit...


489 posted on 08/03/2005 4:53:41 PM PDT by visually_augmented (I was blind, but now I see)
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To: visually_augmented; Buggman; Corin Stormhands

God demonstrates his love for those in Hell by keeping them there and not inflicting creation with them again.

Arnold Schwarzeneggar does the very best for Charles Manson by keeping him locked up with the key thrown away.


490 posted on 08/03/2005 5:01:53 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: visually_augmented; xzins; P-Marlowe; RnMomof7; Dr. Eckleburg; Corin Stormhands
If God loves those in Hell, could you give me one demonstration of His love for them?

God loved them so much that He died for them. He further loves them enough to let them make their own choice to spurn Him and deal with the consequences. That kind of respect, to let a person make their choices even when it hurts both of you rather than reprogram them like a robot and thus treat them as a thing rather than a person, is the ultimate expression of God's love to even the lost.

Or to quote C.S. Lewis, "Hell is God's final mercy for those who will allow Him to give them no other."

508 posted on 08/03/2005 6:23:39 PM PDT by Buggman (Baruch ata Adonai Elohanu, Mehlech ha Olam, asher nathan lanu et derech ha y’shua b’Mashiach Yeshua.)
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