Theology of Love or Hate
"I make seeking my salvation the main business of my life." (editor, Perkins. 103). At the time of the preceding statement, Jonathan Edwards neither had a full understanding of God's redeeming love or the ability to convey the simplicity of salvation through the love of Jesus Christ. It is improper and unscriptural to imply that an individual must make the quest for eternal life a prolonged and protracted journey. This places the salvation experience, or the eternal life goal, in the same class as it would the lifetime crusade of a physician desiring to help and heal others. Jesus said in the gospel according to St. John 3:16-17 (NIV), "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." Yes, there is Divine judgement just as there has been since man's first fall in the Garden of Eden. However, one must remember that before judgement, there was love. God made man and woman perfect. Sin required judgement be placed on man.God's love lingered with man. Nevertheless, before the first raindrop of the "great fl
"Jesus presented an equivalence of the Father's plan for eternal salvation. John, Jesus began his talk with Nicodemus three times with "Verily, verily, I say unto you. God's message was and is that of love and life for the spiritually lost. Prior to Jesus' birth in that small stable in Bethlehem, the only means of atonement for sin was through the blood of a sacrifice. ood" fell, God would again judge the world by his own law. " It would take a father's love for me to die for my son or daughter. John 3:14, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. He disciplines, but with a loving hand. As a matter of fact, it shows the type of love that Jesus spoke of when he said in John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends. John 3:16-17 speaks of God's love for man.
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