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Old 12-30-2021, 12:06 PM
 
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It is "God is love, BUT" that I cannot relate to.
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Old 12-30-2021, 12:13 PM
 
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It is "God is love, BUT" that I cannot relate to.
I know, i feel the same way

“But” can negate what comes before it
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Old 12-30-2021, 02:11 PM
 
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I know, i feel the same way

“But” can negate what comes before it

God warned all what is coming to this earth, and his son showed how to live for entrance into that kingdom, instead satan has made the hearts of men like this-2Timothy 3--most all of these love their familys and friends. Its not enough. One must love their enemies like that as well. The people of Noahs day loved their families and friends it was not enough. It takes obeying Jesus. In every decision.
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Old 12-30-2021, 02:22 PM
 
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God warned all what is coming to this earth, and his son showed how to live for entrance into that kingdom, instead satan has made the hearts of men like this-2Timothy 3--most all of these love their familys and friends. Its not enough. One must love their enemies like that as well. The people of Noahs day loved their families and friends it was not enough. It takes obeying Jesus. In every decision.
Yes

That is what has happened since the 1500’s

The Jehovah witnesses are the same as all the rest - they collect together to form a “self” but all of those “selves” are to deny that “self”
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Old 12-30-2021, 03:24 PM
 
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Yes but then those that obey Jesus learn every utterance and apply them and stop practicing sin. His real teachers on earth make sure every utterance is taught and applied. Not alldo apply it though, Some try to stand but fall.
So God doesnt love all sinners, but only some of them.
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Old 12-30-2021, 03:43 PM
 
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So God doesnt love all sinners, but only some of them.

The righteous will possess the earth and reside forever upon it-Psalm 37:29--The rest have been warned for the last 1900 years or more in revelation.. Psalm 37:9-10 even warned them longer than that. They laugh as they did in Noahs day.
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Old 12-30-2021, 03:46 PM
 
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Yes

That is what has happened since the 1500’s

The Jehovah witnesses are the same as all the rest - they collect together to form a “self” but all of those “selves” are to deny that “self”

The Jw,s obey Jesus, He is the head of the congregation- Collosians 1:18-- they have carried the work on Jesus started and doesnt stop until the end-Luke 10--Acts 20:20-- If the world hasnt noticed the door to door work stopped 20 months ago. We are getting close.
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Old 12-31-2021, 10:46 AM
 
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Most religious People think that God's Love is a mere emotion, however that cannot be further from the Truth. The Bible Teaches that God's Love and the Love of Jesus Christ produces effects, results. For God so loved the World that He Gave His only begotten Son. Yes Christ coming into the World to save His Own was an effect of God's Love !

Jn 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.


Gal 2:20

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

And Christ's giving of Himself, produces Results for them as Well. And it is by theses results that God's Love produces, it is impossible to conclude that God's Love and that of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ is unto all mankind without exception !

Here is one of many effects of God's Love to those He loves 2 Thess 2:16-17

16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.


Those God Loved, along with that Love He gives [ to the Loved ones] everlasting consolation and good hope through Grace. If we do not have these things abiding within, chances are, God does not Love us, because that is one of the evidences He gives those He Loves.

This hope comes as a result of the New Birth 1 Pet 1:3

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

So it is appropriate to say that God Loves no man that does not receive a New Birth by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead !

This means, if Christ had not been raised from the dead, then none of those He died for would be born again, our New Birth is in virtue of His Resurrection !
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Old 12-31-2021, 10:48 AM
 
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The righteous will possess the earth and reside forever upon it-Psalm 37:29--The rest have been warned for the last 1900 years or more in revelation.. Psalm 37:9-10 even warned them longer than that. They laugh as they did in Noahs day.
So God doesnt love all sinners, but only some of them.
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Old 12-31-2021, 11:36 AM
 
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Most religious People think that God's Love is a mere emotion, however that cannot be further from the Truth. The Bible Teaches that God's Love and the Love of Jesus Christ produces effects, results. For God so loved the World that He Gave His only begotten Son. Yes Christ coming into the World to save His Own was an effect of God's Love !

Jn 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Gal 2:20

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

And Christ's giving of Himself, produces Results for them as Well. And it is by theses results that God's Love produces, it is impossible to conclude that God's Love and that of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ is unto all mankind without exception !

Here is one of many effects of God's Love to those He loves 2 Thess 2:16-17

16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Those God Loved, along with that Love He gives [ to the Loved ones] everlasting consolation and good hope through Grace. If we do not have these things abiding within, chances are, God does not Love us, because that is one of the evidences He gives those He Loves.

This hope comes as a result of the New Birth 1 Pet 1:3

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

So it is appropriate to say that God Loves no man that does not receive a New Birth by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead !

This means, if Christ had not been raised from the dead, then none of those He died for would be born again, our New Birth is in virtue of His Resurrection !
You are hopelessly mired in your desire to be special in God's eyes which actually endangers your Soul because you are in the wrong spiritual states of mind. It is very sad because I believe you are a sincere believer in God.
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