Hey people this is me, I will be having some problems posting in the next few days, and will be without my Bible when I do post on spurr of the moment like now. However if text are required I will provide!
The Bible tells me that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have life.
And I understand it to tell me that when Christ was hung on the cross and all the sins of the world were laid on Him to make ammends for, that God turned His face away.
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
God is all knowing and as to that I believe we can all agree. This would mean that God knows those who will refuse eternal life through our Savior Jesus Christ. Some will and do go so far as to try and curse our Lord and those He came to free.
The Bible says, "God is Love", and I believe this with all my heart, however I also believe that God's understanding of love and our understanding of love are not the same.
Love allows one to choose or reject. Do you remember when Jesus was speaking to the people about children? He said unless we become like little children we will by no ways see Heaven. He goes on to say that it is better for one who turns one of those little ones away if he had a mill stone tied around their neck and were cast into the deepest part of the sea.
And one question I would like to ask, if, when a person dies they either go dirrectly to Heaven or dirrectly to hell to spend eternity, is this the acts of a loving God by our understanding of love?
If you lived to be 100 yrs old and were not saved when you die, does a loving God allow you to spend eternity in pain and torture as punishment for not accepting His gift of forgivness?
Another topic I know.
But the sum of the matter is that God loves us so much that He was willing to take a chance of being eternaly seperated from His Son in order to set us free from our bondage to sin and death.
And I believe that yes as the Bible says, our all knowing God does hate some people because of their unrepenting hardened heart.
God bless you every one, and please be patient with me in any delays to answer.
Brother Jerry-The Berlin Bear