It is not a question of being a "right." It is a question of the very nature and character of the Father. He is described as love.
The question of salvation, is throughout the Holy Writings a contrast between two groups, that is the saved and the damned. The political correctness spirit of this age, that deceives, has blurred this line of separation.
The nature and character of the Father, projected through his Son, is part and parcel of separating the wheat from the tares, good from evil and light from darkness. Love and Justice are both sides of the same sword of God and they work in tandem and never one without the other.
God is Love!
God is also Justice!
Jesus said....Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. (John 10:34)
The political correctness spirit of this world has concocted a spirit of love, unconditional love, without addressing sin, without discerning and separating good from evil, light from dark. This love is authored not by the God of the Bible.
I'm sorry, but a worldly salvation that removes and replaces the central to the Christian faith Cross, as the sin offering, for the preaching of repentance and spiritually eating of the Holy Body and the Holy Blood of Christ Jesus, with a "
Love Only" gospel, is an attack on the very nature and character of God. It is an attack on the trinity of God, because as it is written......
26Dear friends,
if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. 27There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
28For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us. (Hebrews 10:26-29)
The Universal Salvation gospel of "Love Only" salvation, is an attack on the trinity of God and the 1st Century Apostolic Jewish Church in Jerusalem declared such action tramples the Son of God, treats the Blood Covenant as unholy, and insults the Holy Spirit.
It is a flagrant attack on the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and therefore attacks the very nature and character of God.
I plead that people stop doing this and teaching the errors of a Crossless society of Universal Salvation of "Love Only".
When one "loves," one can choose to love and then choose to hate, choose to act in love and choose to act in hatred.
To God and his Christ, rejecting sin, rejecting darkness, rejecting evil is the very act of loving God. On the flip side, if one loves the sins of the world and loves those who wilfully sin against the Holy Covenant, then they become enemies of God and thereby are breaking the first commandment, without even considering what the second commandment implies in context to the first and most important.
Do Not Love This World
15Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.
17And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave.
But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. (1 John 2:15-17)
And further more.....the second witness says......
4You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. (James 4:4)
But when one IS love, then the act of loving is all that one can do. There simply is nothing else.
That worldly love, will kill the person who craves it, because it is a fading worldly love, that places the individual on the opposite side of the fence, as the enemy of God. Scripture clearly states through the mouths of many witnesses, that the person who loves the world unconditionally, is the one who embraces it as it is, in its current spiritual state. Therefore this person rejects the love of the Father and the love of the Father is not in them.
To create sentient beings, foreknowing that they would fall into sin and then be tortured forever, is not an act of love towards those beings.
That was the charge that Satan laid upon God, in the Garden, remember......
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4“
You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:2-5)
So, Satan used the same argument, that God will not do anything to harm you Eve, he is love, remember (
Wink!). Then he places Eve in a false sense of security, ensuring her that God will not kill her, so she ate, because the truth of eating from the tree disclosed knowledge that was held back from them, for their own good offcourse.
Once they had eaten it, another truth was that God did not kill them, he just separated them from him and that did the trick, that is they died. So the deception is like this.....
God is Love.....so he will not send you to hell and kill you, but know that if you continue sinning wilfully, then he is merciful and you will surely not eternally die, but will overtime gain back God's favour, God will find another alternate path, like say purgatory, right?
Right! I really meant WRONG! In strongest sense of Wrong!
So, truth bombs are dropped, just like Satan did to Eve, then towards the end, God doesn't circumvent the Cross of salvation whilst the person lives in the earthly body, but after the person dies, they are thinking safety and temporal torment in say purgatory, then once reality sinks in, just like it did for Adam and Eve, they realise that no one is coming to get them out of that place/state, and I mean no one. So the hope that Eve had, that all is fine and God will forgive them, was met by the harsh reality, that their expulsion from the presence of God, meant certain death.
In the case of Adam and Eve, the Cross of salvation was made available, whilst people who live after the Cross, is available to them freely. Yet after a person dies, that is a totally different story, since God is not going to abdicate his Son's Cross, not in this life time, nor in the life time to come. Those people who die separated from God are therefore eternally damned, never to see life again. This would be the outer darkness of hell, spoken off many times by Jesus.
Since man, from Adam waited for the Cross after Adam was sent to his temporal death, until the Cross of salvation came, then after biological death, there is really no plan as far as salvation that abdicates the Cross, for some fairy tale temporary purging. The doctrine of purgatory is a direct insult to God the Father and it removes the Cross of salvation from the question of salvation, as does the doctrine of Universal Salvation, in the notion that God is Love and will find another way, outside of the Cross of his only begotten Son.
I say to all alternate salvation doctrines, that are outside of the Cross of Christ Jesus......
Rubbish! In the strongest sense of the word rubbish!
To give up on someone because they are either profoundly evil or profoundly rebellious, is not an act of love.
God is not going to give up on his Son's Cross anytime soon. He will give up on the whole world, but not on his Son's Cross, you better believe it friend!
The Parable of the Prodigal shows us that the Father's love never gives up.
The Prodigal son repented of his wilfully sinning against his father and he came back with a broken and contrite heart. He came back as a repentant son, who wanted to be counted like his servants.
Whilst he was away in the sinful pig trough of the world, he decided to come back before he would died, otherwise it would have been too late for him, to gain the father's favour and forgiveness.
After all, the prodigical son said....
17“When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!
18I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you. (Luke 15:17-18)
To create sentient beings capable of suffering, and then, without any merit or demerit on their part whatsoever, choose some to enjoy eternal bliss and the majority to suffer eternal torment, is not the action of a loving Father. It is the action of a psychopath.
Be very careful what you say, because the utterances we make can be used against us all.
I pleadingly would not recommend people calling Jesus a psychopath....
34“
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35For I have come to turn
“ ‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
36a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
37“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.39Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 10:34-39)
I testify to all, that Jesus Christ is my hero and my role model and to him is all glory, honour and power.
If eternal torment is true - IF - then to allow poor, dumb, stupid creatures to be tricked into damning themselves by being subjected to temptation to evil by a completely malevolent spirit is not the actions of a loving Father.
That was Satan's argumen in the Garden, which placed Eve, under a false sense of security, unbeknown to her, her treatory and fate that eventually resulted after being separated from God.
To allow heretical opinions to be spoke, if those opinions will deceive multitudes into eternal sorrow and torment, is not the action of a loving Father either.
It is the other way around friend. Satan is the deceiver who deceives people into a false sense of security, like peace and safety and love for all, then comes the boom! boom! boom!
We are told to love our enemies, to do good to those who hate us so that we can be like our heavenly Father.
No, this is completely out of context and completely in error. Jesus is not instructing to do good onto enemies of God, who are of the world. Jesus is not instructing to commune with enemies, nor to break bread with eenemies, nor to associate with enemies.
Loving an enemy, within the context of situation and context of culture, that the phrase was delivered to, does not imply any of the above.
In fact, let us read it in context to the Jewish culture and situation, who believed an eye for an eye, within the Old Covenant pretext to deliver Mosaic Law judgment retribution, right there and then, like stoning.
Eye for Eye
38“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’
39But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.
41If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.
42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
The moral behind the teachings of Jesus of loving your enemies, is to not take things into your own hands and to not retailiate or to take vengeance, for it is God who will execute judgement. Resisting an evil person, doesn't mean loving him, it means do not retaliate by returning him an upper cut to the cheek. Jesus teaches to walk away from evil and the enemies of the Cross and to not confront them, so things do not escalate. Pretty wise, wouldn't you say friend?
43“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Context of culture and context of situation is what is needed to properly understand what Jesus is saying.
Therefore, it is right to say that our heavenly Father loves those who hate Him and is passionless. He cannot stop loving for then He would cease to exist because He is love.
That is a logical fallacy.
Your faulty premise......
The Heavenly Father loves those who hate Him and is passionless.
Leading to your faulty conclusion......
He would cease to exist, unless He loves unconditionally.
So acccording to you, God's existence is determined upon external factors, that are solely tied to his Creation. So that once God created man, then he became unconditionally bound to love man, regardless of the intrinsic qualities which point to free will and relationship. So that a symbiotic compulsion is warranted, that compels God to unconditionally love and thereby he is now bound by his own creation, right?
A prisoner of his own doing (creation), right?
This is the Shekinah Glory that you are glorifying, right?
If person A unconditionally loves another person B, regardless of what Person B does to person A, this would be damaging to righteousness and justice and these two will never prevail, because the relationship is not mutual between both parties. It would be a credulous person who is led to believe that God could be portrayed or considered as such.
If humans did this, it would be called stalking and fatal attraction, whereby party A existence and purpose is dependant on the other party B, even though party B wants nothing to do with party A.
I would not be afraid of a Father who I know loves me, even if in His love I must be corrected (chastened) and that chastening lasts a while and is painful.
That is good.
But I would fear a Father who creates me and others just to be tormented (Calvinism) and takes delight in the torment of His creatures (Thomas Aquinas).
You present a false taxonomy. Please care to revise.
Justinian’s criticism implies that fear of damnation is a stronger motivational force for repentance than love and the hope of eternal happiness. Is this true?
I am not a psychologist.
What kind of faith does the threat of eternal damnation generate? Does faith based on fear save?
Apparently the fear spoken of biblically is actually born out of intrinsic and sincere love. I don't know what the problem is that you present.
Salvific fear, too, must also have its measure, and not become an attempt to terrorize”
Salvific fear you say? That would be for the determined enemies of God, not to be confused with Godly fear spoken of by the many witnesses of scripture.