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To: DannyTN
"First of all "Jesus does not "love" us all"

No Danny, God loves those that are His..

Proverbs 8:17 ESV I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Psalm 5:5, "The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes; Thou dost hate all who do iniquity," Psalm 11:5, "The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates." Lev. 20:23, "Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them."

Prov. 6:16-19, "There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers."

Hosea 9:15, "All their evil is at Gilgal; indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels."

http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2012/09/06/does-god-love-everyone/

395 posted on 04/21/2015 1:03:20 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
"No Danny, God loves those that are His.."

Now THAT is another Gospel.

God loves everyone. (John 3:16; 1 John 2:2; Romans 5:8). His love in not conditional, it is based only on the fact that God is love and is a God of love (1 John 4:8, 16). God’s love for all of mankind is proved by His mercy by not immediately punishing people for their sins (Romans 3:23; 6:23). God’s love for the world is manifested in the fact that He gives people the opportunity to repent (2 Peter 3:9).

However, God’s love for the world does not mean He will ignore sin. Sin is the choice of self before God and God loves us enough to honor our choice. The most loving act of eternity is described in Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” God loves everyone unconditionally in that He shows mercy to everyone by not destroying them immediately because of their sin.

400 posted on 04/21/2015 1:19:38 PM PDT by Eucharista
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To: RnMomof7
God loves the sinner, he hates the sin.

In the story of Jonah, everyone knew Ninevah was wicked. God was prepared to destroy them. But He still loved them. And he sent Jonah to them. Jonah didn't want to go. Jonah wanted Ninevah to get what they had coming to them. Enter very big fish, swallows Jonah, Jonah decides to obey and go. Ninevah repents! Jonah is mad, because Jonah wanted Ninevah destroyed.

9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?

God's love is eternal. There's not a person on earth that God didn't knit together in his mother's womb and who God doesn't care for. But God anger at injustice and evil is eternal too. And God will destory evil if the people won't repent.

God loves us before we're his. He loves us despite the sin. But He won't tolerate the sin for ever.

408 posted on 04/21/2015 1:40:00 PM PDT by DannyTN
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