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Originally Posted by XbeyondthisworldX
Well, first of all, unless somebody on this site is a living prophet, they can't honestly say they know for a fact, whether He accepts it or not. Second of all, if God IS love, then how can God do anything but love? In my opinion, he may not like a certian decision you make, but He ultimately still loves you. Plus, I don't think he cares about every little individual sin, but I think he cares more about how you live your life in genral, and if you love Him. Whenever I do something that some people consider a sin, but nobody's really sure it's a sin, I ask God to teach me somehow that it's a sin if it is, and to give me the wisdom not to do it again, and to be forgiven, but if it's not a sin, let me feel like I am allowed to do it.
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Be cause God isn't just love. He is merciful, righteous, holy, and just. Therefore He'd be unloving, unjust, and unrighteous to not punish evil doers (sinners), and separate them from those who are His children (people whom are saved). Therefore if He was only love, then what you are saying makes sense. But what your saying goes against 3 other attributes of Him. Does He loves us? Absolutely. Peter tells us that the reason we are all even alive is because the Lord is slow in pouring out His wrath because He wishes no one to perish, but all to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). However, James tells us if you keep the whole law yet stumble at one point you are guilty of breaking all the law (James 2:10). And therefore if you have sinned you a lawbreaker (1 John 3:4) and in Psalm 25 it tells us that He does not forget the sins our youth. He will come again to judge the world based on how they lived their lives to the Ten Commandments, and unless you have the righteousness that exceeds that of the Pharisees you will be cast into the lake of fire (Matthew 5:20). Therefore the only way to exceed this and meet the demands of God's standards of being perfect (Matthew 5:48), you must have the righteousness of Christ imputed into you and your sins forgiven. And you do so by faith in Jesus Christ that His sacrifice was sufficient for you. If you do not, because you have broken the law you must be punished. The wages of your (and mine) sin is death (Romans 6:23), which is a physical death and eternal separation from God in hell (Revelation 21:8). But because God is gracious and has given us a righteousness that is by faith (Romans 1:17). Therefore the only way to escape condemnation is to be under the blood of Christ Jesus (Romans 5:1). You do so by repenting and putting your faith in Jesus and you will be sealed (promised) with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13) which is a part of God that is imputed into you that surpasses the righteousness of the Pharisees, and your life is now looked at as Jesus life by God the Father and you are now accepted into Heaven because the Holy Spirit is our guarantee into the Kingdom (Ephesians 1:14).