If everyone forgives everybody everything, no more judgement, no more punishment, and ... no more death?
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Does God hate people?
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That is only part of the equation.
It is true that if we want to be forgiven, we must forgive those who offend us. But we also require God's forgiveness.
And Christ has already defeated death, but we will continue to suffer from the curse of it until the final judgement.
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It is only in Christ that this will happen, the only effective way was through Christ. It is possible for some who lived where they never heard the gospel to still be in Christ for this, when they respond rightly to what God is showing them, with believing him and repenting from sin they will see in their lives, as God gives opportunity to all, not willing that any should perish, but it is not many this way, without the gospel of salvation in Christ going forth that all such people will hear it, with greater opportunity to respond.
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sunlover1
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The more you get to know His "ways" the more you'll "know" whether you are one of His or not.
Paul wasn't confused or wondering if he would make it in. He said that to live is Christ but to
die is vain, and he was struggling to decide which he wanted to do iirc.
God is love... Don't go by one verse (jacob i loved but essau i hated) especially when there
are so many ways the scholars view that one passage. Go by the ENTIRE Bible, it paints
the picture of God.
Jesus is perfect theology.
Did/does He hate anyone?
He said choose YOU this day who you will serve.
He said I set before you life and death, CHOOSE life.
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98cwitr
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I don't think the question is "did He hate anyone?" but was He indifferent to anyone. The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. What Jesus indifferent toward anyone? Did He not say to let the dead bury the dead?
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yeshuaslavejeff
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Yahweh says this frequently. (not repeating Himself to people, but telling all the people He chooses to tell)
It is repeated in Scripture somewhere, I think OT and NT. (as in who follows Jesus, vs who follows their own father the devil / idols/ other gods)
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A short Scripture-based commentary on this issue. I wish not to debate.
https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=11&article=2035
That's exactly what I was going to say. The account is found in Matthew 5:44. Jesus would not have commanded His followers to do something that He doesn't do Himself.
https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=11&article=2035
That's exactly what I was going to say. The account is found in Matthew 5:44. Jesus would not have commanded His followers to do something that He doesn't do Himself.
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Chinchilla
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Yah hates people with perfect hate
Malachi 1
2 I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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