Understanding God's Love

[PelagiathePenit]

All my posts could be summed up to this. I see all the wonderful traits - people who are logical, strong, tough, assertive, diligent, charismatic. I know God does not want clones. They are people who lack these. How does God manage to love the irrational, the weak, the overly sensitive, lazy, self-absorbed, non-people person? Especially those who do not care for his existence at all. How and why God love people who do possess traits that wonderful? How and why does He love the narrow-minded, impatient, racist, petty, immature, selfish, ? How come God does not give us all the same gifts? God does not want conformity. Unfortunately because of our differences we will always clash.

 

[mommy_k]

God loves us all because we are His children. This love is unconditional.

He gives individuals traits that all can be used for His glory-even negative ones, because there is the opportunity to witness conversion within themselves and others.

 

[SJacob7]

All my posts could be summed up to this. I see all the wonderful traits - people who are logical, strong, tough, assertive, diligent, charismatic. I know God does not want clones. They are people who lack these. How does God manage to love the irrational, the weak, the overly sensitive, lazy, self-absorbed, non-people person? Especially those who do not care for his existence at all. How and why God love people who do possess traits that wonderful? How and why does He love the narrow-minded, impatient, racist, petty, immature, selfish, ? How come God does not give us all the same gifts? God does not want conformity. Unfortunately because of our differences we will always clash.

God even loves the judgmental person!

 

[PelagiathePenit]

God even loves the judgmental person!

Why do you say this?

 

[fhansen]

All my posts could be summed up to this. I see all the wonderful traits - people who are logical, strong, tough, assertive, diligent, charismatic. I know God does not want clones. They are people who lack these. How does God manage to love the irrational, the weak, the overly sensitive, lazy, self-absorbed, non-people person? Especially those who do not care for his existence at all. How and why God love people who do possess traits that wonderful? How and why does He love the narrow-minded, impatient, racist, petty, immature, selfish, ? How come God does not give us all the same gifts? God does not want conformity. Unfortunately because of our differences we will always clash.

God loves all unconditionally. He did not make us wrong or sinful; He created us to be perfect according to our own natures, while allowing us to freely diverge from that perfection. He especially desires our humility, because that’s what causes us to turn to Him, while pride keeps us absorbed by ourselves. And this turning to Him first of all is what makes us just, and not first of all being logical, tough, assertive-or weak, lazy, irrational, etc, He can take it from there, turning our weaknesses into strengths as scripture tells us.

 

[SJacob7]

Why do you say this?

Because He does.

 

[ganonscrub]

God creates each of us in his own image. If you are choosing to select traits that are not “wonderful” in some way and comparing them to traits that are “wonderful”, then you are approaching this with an entirely wrong attitude.

 

[Eric_Hyom]

Just some thoughts,

When Jesus spent his time on Earth, he would have lived by the greatest commandments; this would have been the greatest way he could respond to each and every situation in his life. But how did Jesus love all his neighbours as he loved himself, Judas who betrayed him, the soldiers who nailed him to the cross? Jesus was an innocent man, with the power and authority to ask God for justice. But it seems that nothing, and no one should stand in the way of Jesus loving all his neighbours as he loved himself, and we know that he prayed on the cross, ‘forgive them Father’

It seems that every time Jesus suffered injustice here on Earth, he forgave, in order that he should continue to love the sinners as he loved himself. If Jesus can forgive the people who had him killed, then it should give us hope that we can be forgiven also. What kind of a burden do we place on Jesus with our sins?

After his resurrection does the divine nature of Jesus, follow his human nature? When Jesus ascended into heaven, does Jesus still forgive us, in order that he should continue to love each and every one of us as he loves himself?