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Not quite sure of what you trying to relate to me. Since you wrote Bible quote under God's justice is glorified in the punishment of the wicked. And the scriptures you gave says in a nutshell that God delights and those who serve him.
To recite scripture is to give scripture and you recited scripture and started it with saying this is what the Lord says
Nice dodge, but I've long since learned to pay little or no heed to amateur linguists who cite what the different scruptures "really mean" to cancel out Scriptures they find don't square with their doctrine. I'm looking at a dozen or so translations here (ain't 'puters wonderful?) that all use the word "destroy". I assume that most of the folks who did those translations had at least a nodding acquantance with Koine Greek, so U'll go with them, and a fig for both your lexicon and your pernicious doctrine.
If by "justice" you mean infinite torture for finite offenses. That;s the problerm, isn't it? The whole idea that presenting God as a merciless fiend whose anger and hatred are literally endless as somehow "just" is to render the concept of "justice" meaningless. "Praise the Lord, whose malice endures forever". "For the wages of sin is is eternal life in the most horrific imaginable torture." Sounds more like the religion of Mohammed than that of Jesus Christ.
What you are claiming is that only believers love, which is of course patent absurdity
Actually no. Your argument is not with me but with scripture.
I merely posted the verse that followed the one you posted because it unnails your conclusion.
Some love some don’t.
Actually, that is not the problem.
Old canard doesn't play
1 John 4:8 unclaims 1 John 4:7?
Spend enough time in the world and you'll eventually learn that a lot of people's love was never really ever truly genuine. That's why Jesus had to set the true example, etc.
