You are confusing the creature with the Creator. You are saying that the uncreated God is subject to His own Creation -- by necessity! Moreso, you are using yourself as a model (and proof of what God is like): since to you love must be balanced by hate, so then you surmise God must be "just like you."
It's like a table comparing itself to the carpenter! Being a Protestant of some sort I suppose, you surely have missed that part of the Scripture where God reveals that His ways are not our ways and His thought are not our thoughts! (Isa 55:8)
>> You are confusing the creature with the Creator.<<
No, I'm not - I'm using His Word which explains what I've just stated.
He pours out His love just as much as He pour out His wrath. In fact, to the saved, He disciplines us out of love. The path to perdition is wide and densely populated, the road to life is narrow and sparse. Sounds to me like His justice is being meted out.
>>You are saying that the uncreated God is subject to His own Creation -- by necessity!<<
I said no such thing - please don't put words into my posts.
>>Moreso, you are using yourself as a model (and proof of what God is like)<<
I use myself as a model for nothing but perpetual sin saved through His perfect Grace according to His good pleasure.
>>since to you love must be balanced by hate, so then you surmise God must be "just like you."<<
Again, no, as I clearly stated in my reponse to your quote from Matthew - we are to imitate Him.
>>God reveals that His ways are not our ways and His thought are not our thoughts!<<
Amen - because He is perfect, and we are not. Otherwise, there'd be no need for love, justice, heaven, or hell.
Remind me again which camp teaches that God is sovereign even over man's will, and which camp teaches that God will not - perhaps even cannot, override mankind's "free will" when it comes to man overcoming the bondage to sin and choosing salvation for himself.