Occult.. it's true power source?Tarot CardsLove is not God's only attribute. God is also holy. God is also just. God has a number of attributes, and none of those attributes act independantly of the others. So while it is true that God is love, His love cannot act outside of His holiness. And His holiness demands that He hate sin and those who practice it. God is perfect, so He is allowed to hate because His hatred is a perfect hatred (stemming from an intolerance of sin). God commands us to love because He knows we are not perfect and that if we were to hate, our sin nature would cause our hatred to not be perfect as His is. God also commands us to love because Christians loving each other is the only way that the world will be able to see the love of God in action. Put that verse in context. Once you do, you can see that the "any" that is referred to there is referring to the elect of God. The passage means that the day of the Lord will not come until all of the elect have come to repentance because God has promised that all of His elect will come to Him. Election and Free Will are like two rails of a railroad track - both happening at the same time yet never intersecting. God has elected some to come to salvation. This fact is undeniable by Scripture. Man must believe in order to be saved. This fact is also undeniable by Scripture. Man is not forced by God to believe anything - there is always a choice, believe or don't believe. Just because it is predetermined from God's perspective, and a matter of choice from man's perspective does not mean that there is a contradiction. Have you ever done any real Bible study to try and make any sense of what you call a "confused God"? |
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