What you say “sounds Good” and I would like to believe it.
To be a Catholic, you have to believe it, for that is the teaching of the Church.
But lets see this Mountain of scritural evidence…and lets see it as it is…NOT EXAGERATED.
About the scriptural evidence, I’d first like to point out that passages that say, “For God so loved the world,” or that God loves Israel, do not negate that God loves everyone personally. A patriot can love America and simultaneously love his parents, who are individuals, without having these two loves contradict one another. Therefore no passage that says God loves a nation or group of people, or that he is angry at a nation or group of people, contradicts the idea that he has personal feelings toward each individual.
I can list you countless scriptures that refer to his love for individuals. Noah, for instance, and his family. Rahab and her family, out of all Jericho, are saved. The Book of Ruth, from the scripture, is about some very ordinary people, and the fact that God chose to devote a book out of his Word to describe the lives of a completely ordinary human family reveals his love for everyone. In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18), Abraham argues with God, and God says that if even 50 righteous people are found in the city, he will spare it. He then says if even 45, then if only 30, then 20, then 10 righteous people existed in the city, he would spare it all. So great was his love for these individuals that he would spare their entire city because of the existence of a handful of righteous individuals. However, ultimately only one righteous person was found, so that person and his family (because of Lot’s righteousness, his wicked family were spared) were spared out of the city, and everyone else destroyed. So great was God’s love for these individuals. Countless others have experienced God’s love in this way. Jesus said to his disciples that he called them friends rather than servants, and he taught them to pray “Abba Father,” which means the same thing as “Daddy,” in the Hebrew language. That is as intimately personal as it gets.
There was one case where God said that if Israel was entirely corrupt except for two of his great prophets who were in it, he would destroy the country and save those prophets. God cares so much for his children. Indeed, he calls us “children of God,” and “children,” too, is deeply intimate, as is the term “Father,” which, as well as “Daddy,” we are encouraged to call God. These terms are intimate, as they reflect the personal relationships of the human family, which are deeply intimate.
There are countless scriptures referring to God’s love for individuals, and you’ll see it all over the Bible. There are also passages referring to his concern for groups or nations. There are both. It’s not an either/or.
Remember what happens when a person builds his house on sand.
Lets build our beliefs on solid proof. So they don’t come tumbling down on us.
Show me scriptures and parts of the catechism that deal with me…excaliber.
First of all, let’s build our opinions not so much on our views of what the evidence suggests, but on what the Church teaches. That is where the rock is found. When we rely on our own opinions of the evidence instead, everything becomes subjective and
then we are building on the sand.
By the way, I sent another response to you on the previous page.
