For debate:1213 wrote: God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
1 John 4:16
Please offer some means to confirm the referenced claim is true and factual.
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For debate:1213 wrote: God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
1 John 4:16
brunumb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:45 pm [Replying to JoeyKnothead in post #1]
Pineapple is anger, and he who remains in anger remains in pineapple, and pineapple remains in him.
It's all just rhetoric where the word love has been co-opted to push religious propaganda. God is not love any more than pineapple is anger.
Do you mean this type of love:JoeyKnothead wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:03 pm From Post 4 here:
For debate:1213 wrote: God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
1 John 4:16
Please offer some means to confirm the referenced claim is true and factual.
Considering what God did to his son, the world better look out!nobspeople wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:34 am Do you mean this type of love:
God so loved the world he gave his only son (paraphrased, of course)?
God's approach was to kill people because he was fed up with evil.Or this type of love:
God's love when he drowned 99.9% (estimate) of all life (human, animal and plant) because he was annoyed at the unrighteousness in the world (while that's debatable, there's no debate that animals and plants can't even be righteous)?
I think Eve and Adam didn't need that kind of love. But God didn't leave them hanging because he let them know about good and evil by example.Or this love:
God hid himself to allow Satan to test Adam and Eve in the Garden and then acted all surprised and mad at their choice?
Actually, the blood was meant to mark those who were to be spared God's genocide. God evidently didn't know where the Hebrews lived.Or this love:
If you put the blood of an animal over your door, I'll send a killer to kill your first born children (at least he spared their 2nd and 3rd born - love at its finest)?
God and Satan had a truly amazing bet there, now didn't they? Although Satan was pretty stupid to bet against an all-knowing God, I've often wondered what would have happened aside from God being cursed out by Job if God lost the bet.Or this love:
'Sure, Satan. You can even kill Job's family to prove to a point to the world that he loves me and holds me in high regard'?
Whatever God does, the faithful must call it love as they step over the bodies lying about.There seems to be different types of 'God's love'.