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I've been thinking about your question on why God loves us. It is clear from Scripture that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love each other with an everlasting, boundless love that is ever unchanging and perfect. Since we are in the Son (Jesus) as believers, we are loved because of this great and unsurpassed love within the Godhead. We are loved because we are united in Jesus to God forever and so we participate in this great love with God which nothing can separate us from. We love Him because He loved us first and gave us His Son as a ransom for sin and the sacrifice to free us from enslavement and judgment of sin. We are loved because we are connected to Jesus, who is ever loved by the Father and the Holy Spirit. How wonderful is that.
As to whether or not God loves those who are not believers, I think He does, but not in the same way He loves us in Christ, because loving us in Christ means that He loves us the same as He loves Jesus. Yet, even so, He is benevolent, therefore good and kindhearted to all He has made. He is caring and gracious and causes good to come to both the evil unbelievers and believers alike. He hates the sin in any of His creatures, but is able to still love the creature. However, to be accepted by God, one needs to be in Christ and then our sins are removed from us by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.
I think that from a human standpoint it is difficult for us to really understand how God can hate and love at the same time. He is far beyond what we can really think with out limited minds as far as much about His nature. But He has revealed to us in history and Scripture what He wants us to know about Him. John, the apostle, says that God is Love. Sos we can trust that He loves what He has made in the best way creatures can be loved by the only God there is, maker of heaven and earth.
Daisy, I hope that you are assured of God's endless love for you today. His love for you will never stop or fail to be given to you. You are His.
I've been thinking about your question on why God loves us. It is clear from Scripture that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love each other with an everlasting, boundless love that is ever unchanging and perfect. Since we are in the Son (Jesus) as believers, we are loved because of this great and unsurpassed love within the Godhead. We are loved because we are united in Jesus to God forever and so we participate in this great love with God which nothing can separate us from. We love Him because He loved us first and gave us His Son as a ransom for sin and the sacrifice to free us from enslavement and judgment of sin. We are loved because we are connected to Jesus, who is ever loved by the Father and the Holy Spirit. How wonderful is that.
As to whether or not God loves those who are not believers, I think He does, but not in the same way He loves us in Christ, because loving us in Christ means that He loves us the same as He loves Jesus. Yet, even so, He is benevolent, therefore good and kindhearted to all He has made. He is caring and gracious and causes good to come to both the evil unbelievers and believers alike. He hates the sin in any of His creatures, but is able to still love the creature. However, to be accepted by God, one needs to be in Christ and then our sins are removed from us by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.
I think that from a human standpoint it is difficult for us to really understand how God can hate and love at the same time. He is far beyond what we can really think with out limited minds as far as much about His nature. But He has revealed to us in history and Scripture what He wants us to know about Him. John, the apostle, says that God is Love. Sos we can trust that He loves what He has made in the best way creatures can be loved by the only God there is, maker of heaven and earth.
Daisy, I hope that you are assured of God's endless love for you today. His love for you will never stop or fail to be given to you. You are His.
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