>> 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.
Right, so don't be fooled into believeing otherwise that we are anything like the Original, or even similar to Him. And do not take our emotions and needs and desires and necessities and ascribe them to Him Who was before all ages, before the world.
And if we do become Christ-like in our life-time, it will be only in our Christian hearts.