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Opposed to Untruth.
It should come naturally to you, if you are a loving person, when you begin to understand, realise, comprehend what He has done for us (you, me, them).'Loving one another' is great ..... not sure how you can love God though???
The full impact of His sacrifice for us is really distracted by the emphasis Christians place on the cross.
So you know that every time someone suffers, they cry toward God "why don't you help me?", "why have you allowed this?", and do you think that He doesn't cry too? Do you know what it's like to be that person who cries to God? Do you know how hard it is to forgive? Can you picture what it is like for God to be immensely aware of that grief every time it happens? Do you think He isn't? Remember what Jesus says in Matthew 25 "When you were doing it to them, you were doing it to me". Because He loves us, He grieves when we suffer.
Think about that happening through all ages past, present and future, and then consider the amount of hurt He has had. Then ask why. I really do not know why. I mean, the majority of people will not even buy a box of matches for a homeless person to light his smoke. It only costs them 50c, but they aren't prepared to pay that cost for him, when they despise him for being so unable to look after himself.
Do you know though, how much delight it gives that person who needs the smoke, when they don't have any way to light it, for someone simply buying them a 50c box of matches?
Then think about this: the amount that He has paid, the cost of grieving for hundreds of billions of human lives (then consider those non-human lives who also cry to Him in anguish), and He has made all of that payment for what? For one person to have life? For every person to have life? Scriptures say that Jesus said "as many as would believe in him". So even if there is only one (which we know there isn't, and we assume He must have expected before even beginning), He did it for that person.
If you are one of those people, then you can consider He has been very generous to pay such a cost so that you can have life. Because His grief over the total sum of suffering throughout the entire history of life, is the cost of life for all who have received it. Hopefully, if you are able to absorb this, you will be able to realise that really, you should love Him honestly because it is not right to regard Him in an opposite way.
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