Hi Taz,
(B) God loves me unconditionally.
I wanted to expand on this point in your post.
As I mentioned in my earlier post I don't know where you got this mistaken idea.
God's love is conditional and has been since the first man willfully disobeyed Him. Even the first man's existence was conditional. Eat the fruit you die.
God's chosen people the children of Israel were told:
You do this and I will do that.
You don't obey I chastise.
History says when God's chosen people obeyed God blessed.
When God's chosen people disobeyed God punished.
God is a God of justice. vengeance is mine thus saith the Lord.
Don't get me wrong God is a God of love just not the kind of love people claim it to be.
We like to make God into what we want Him to be. That will never happen.
Unconditional love does exist.
As I said I have unconditional love for my God, my Church, and my wife. But the rest of the world no way. So that means I do not have unconditional love because I make exceptions.
Jesus Christ has unconditional love.
He loves everyone including the entire universe.
He left His throne in heaven and came down to earth and took a flesh body to live and be tempted as we are and to fulfill God the Fathers requirement for the sin of the first man which was passed upon all mankind to be forgiven.
Jesus who knew no sin came to die for the sins of the world including mankind.
He did not have to do that but He chose to do so.
He had a short ministry here on earth where He started His Church.
He was despised and afflicted.
He was sentenced to die on trumped up charges.
When they went to get him in the garden Peter cut off an ear from one of the men. Jesus replaced it.
While on the cross they spit upon Him mocked Him, laughed at Him and parted his clothes at the foot of the cross.
He suffered greatly on that cross that mankind could be reunited with God.
At any moment while on the cross He could have changed His mind and stepped off the cross but He did not. He loved us that much.
When His life's blood was fast flowing away He cried out "Father forgive them they know not what they do."
While Jesus was on that cross God the Father turned His back on His Son because He could not have my sin in His presence yours or anybody's.
That is unconditional love He gave Himself requiring nothing in return.
He says if you are heavy laden come to Him He will give you rest.
He says if you come to Him He will give you eternal life no strings attached.
He says He will not cast out any that come's unto Him.
He loved everybody equal and freely gave Himself for everybody.
Now His Father who gave His Son to die on that cross for the sins of the world being a God of justice says if you trust my Son you will have life eternal with Him.
He says if you do not trust His Son you will not see life but you will be cast into the lake of fire that burneth forever.
Now why would anybody think that a Father that gave His only begotten Son to die in such a manner for man making only one requirement for man to have eternal life be so loving and good when man says no way God, I don't believe you exist, Jesus is just a myth, and all the other reasons given for not receiving Jesus as personal saviour, that He would not cast that individual into the lake of fire.
God has offered you a pardon. It is free. Your sin debt has been paid. But if you reject that pardon you will burn in the lake of fire forever.
Unconditional love=Jesus loved me before I was born. He died for my sins before I was even thought of. He knew I was going to be disobedient, unthankful, unholy, sometimes a rotten scoundrel. In fact He knew every sin I would ever commit, all my faults and failures, and was still willing to pay my sin debt. Then He said all you have to do is receive eternal life. You can't do one thing to deserve it, only trust me.
Now if that is not unconditional love there is no such thing.
Folks I am going to be with Jesus when I die even though I deserve to be in hell.
Not because of anything I have ever done But because Jesus loved "ME"
All I had to do was receive the free gift God gave for me.
Jesus loves you, you, and you just as much as He loved me.
He died so no one would have to go to Hell.
If you go to Hell it is because you choose to do so.
It will not be God's fault so quit blaming God for your sins and your forefather's sin.
Step up and take responsibility for yourself.
A child of the King,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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