I listed a few conditions the Bible puts on forgiveness. You don't think God's forgiveness is unconditional, do you?
We could consider God's love to be unconditional, if we believe that He loves us as even as He is throwing (some of) us into hell. Those of us who don't bear good fruit (hewn down and thrown into the fire), for example.
God's love is unconditional. His conditions for forgiveness were met in Jesus Christ. Faith in Jesus imputes His righteousness to those who believe, the only condition that is required.
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
God's love is unconditional. His conditions for forgiveness were met in Jesus Christ. Faith in Jesus imputes His righteousness to those who believe, the only condition that is required.
So it's my flawed human thinking. Reading things for what they say. Taking Jesus (as quoted in the Bible) at His word. When Jesus puts conditions on God's forgiveness, He doesn't actually mean there are conditions for us.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
So it's my flawed human thinking. Reading things for what they say. Taking Jesus (as quoted in the Bible) at His word. When Jesus puts conditions on God's forgiveness, He doesn't actually mean there are conditions for us.
So it's my flawed human thinking. Reading things for what they say. Taking Jesus (as quoted in the Bible) at His word. When Jesus puts conditions on God's forgiveness, He doesn't actually mean there are conditions for us.
Did Jesus meet God's conditions for holiness and perfection?
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
And God will (in the future!) love us, even as He is throwing us into the lake of fire. Cool.
(Don't even try to say He won't do that; that we will send ourselves to hell. That is utterly absurd, and it isn't even in the Bible!)
God is holy and God is love. Every judgment He makes is righteous. There will be no injustice in His casting the wicked into the lake of fire. If a human being was doing it, it would be evil. Our Holy God can and will do it, and it will not be a contradiction to either His holiness or His love for humanity. He is not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance. But many will perish.
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
I believe a person can backslide. I dont believe one saved always saved. But I don't believe in a God who gives up easy either.
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
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