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To: ShadowAce
If I were God, I wouldn't concern myself with mankind loving me. It wouldn't even cross my mind. What I'd concern myself with is taking care of my responsibilities. Here's an example: I have pets. I do everything in my power to make sure they are safe. If they are sick, I take them to the vet. If they are hungry, I feed them, etc. I do that because I love them. I do not demand that they love me.
63 posted on 06/29/2020 5:42:53 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady
If I were God, I wouldn't concern myself with mankind loving me.

Here's your disconnect. God created Man for the sole purpose of loving Him and Him loving us--for that relationship.

That is why the entire universe was created--for us. The universe you see now is what He created, as He exists outside of what we see as space/time.

I do not demand that they love me.

He does not demand it either. He created us in His image--which means our souls are immortal, and He will not destroy those souls. So, we all have a choice (Free will). He can love Him, and desire to be in a relationship with Him,or we don't. At the end of our lives, we will end up at the place we have chosen--in His heaven to be with Him for eternity, or in the place He has prepared for those who do not wish that relationship.

It won't be pleasant.

64 posted on 06/30/2020 5:09:29 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: A_perfect_lady
God doesn’t demand that you love Him. Like you as pet owner, though, He derives pleasure from when His creatures willfully acknowledge His grace and kindness.
65 posted on 06/30/2020 5:24:29 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: A_perfect_lady; ShadowAce

“I do not demand that they love me.”
You are full of horse crap!!! If that pet bit you, growled at you, bit your sons, daughters, friends, tore up your furniture, bath roomed everywhere, and ignored you, you know good and well you would separate and get rid of that “beloved” pet.

Those descriptions above are so small compared to a Holy God looking upon our disgusting sin. You are lying to yourself and thinking in small human terms and not very good at that.

Yet if that car, house, or washer you own didn’t work when and how you wanted you would either replace or fix in a heart beat. You get in your car to go to the grocery store, but car goes to the swamp you wouldn’t say that’s ok. You say to washer I need clean clothes, but washer says no I think I’ll take the year off. Be honest you are a hypocrite and use double standards and compare God to faulty logic that even you are not willing to deal with.

Matthew 5:45
Repent and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.


73 posted on 06/30/2020 9:18:15 PM PDT by mrobisr (Romans 10:9-11 it's that simple)
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