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Originally Posted by Michael.
Be cause God isn't just love. He is merciful, righteous, holy, and just.
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God is only merciful if you do exactly every single thing he commands and don't sin, otherwise he's the farthest thing from being merciful.
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Originally Posted by Michael.
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).
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In another post you mentioned all people are sinners and now you mention it would be wrong for god to not punish people, so he is merciful and loving while punishing everyone.
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Originally Posted by Michael.
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).
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So Christians are alive because their god doesn't feel like killing them all, instead your god simply chooses to slowly put you in agony but not kill you. I'm not understanding how he loves Christians plays into this.
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Originally Posted by Michael.
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).
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Things like this is what make me ponder the entire religion but more importantly, how people bring themselves to believe in it. So far you've said that god purposely puts us all in agony rather than kill us all at once, since everyone is a sinner god will punish us all, even if we did something stupid in our youth but if you dedicate your life to serving god and only god, then god will spare you since you've played into his low self-esteem and ego. Despite all this, even if you don't worship him, while he's having you suffer throughout your entire life, condemning actions you do and ordering deaths to vast cities, he still loves them yet he says he hates them. I'm not understanding this as it seems to be one gigantic shitstorm of confusion.