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To: Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis
I know it sounds very harsh from me when I say that I don't think God loves us all equally

Well, it's not only harsh, but it's nothing what Jesus taught. God does not hate His creation.

I know both that God IS love

Yes, and that is His essence, His nature, and not His characteristic. So, then, can Love hate? Can absolute and pure Love find room for evil? Can pure Love return evil with evil? No! Because God is unchanging. So love is then always love.

I know, the Bible babblers will quote a passage where it says that God hated. Again, reading the Bible "cold" (literally) is just that. It leads to error. There are numerous sites one can find that show biblical "errors" and "contradictions" which one can "prove" by reading the Bible "cold." It's for simple minds.

2,298 posted on 02/05/2006 6:00:17 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
FK: "I know it sounds very harsh from me when I say that I don't think God loves us all equally."

Well, it's not only harsh, but it's nothing what Jesus taught. God does not hate His creation.

No, God does not hate His creation. What I haven't heard from you is how, if God loves us equally, is it that some are saved and some are lost? Doesn't God have the power to arrange anything He wants? Is God "loving" us by watching some reject Him and go to hell? If I ever loved my kids like that I would rightfully be arrested for child abuse.

So, then, can Love hate? Can absolute and pure Love find room for evil? Can pure Love return evil with evil? No! Because God is unchanging. So love is then always love.

Apparently, to you love CAN hate! God loves us all, is omnipotent, and yet does nothing for those who reject Him. You call that love. You're making my point for me.

I know, the Bible babblers will quote a passage where it says that God hated. Again, reading the Bible "cold" (literally) is just that. It leads to error. ... It's for simple minds.

Yes, us simple-minded Bible babblers will tend to do that, quote the Bible. Shame on us, I know. Sometimes, we even go so far as to accept the actual words in the Bible, and not trust someone else to interpret them out of existence. Silly us again. That Bible thingy just can't be trusted until your leaders give me my view of it. But, Hey wait a minute. You don't even trust Catholic leaders to give you your opinion. That's why you don't have unity, and this could not have been over a trivial matter. Is the Church hierarchy infallible or not? Apparently, you would say 'NO' as to Catholics.

2,368 posted on 02/08/2006 3:50:47 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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