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Originally Posted by Light
The opposite of Justice is Mercy. Mercy by knowing someone is guilty but deciding to show them mercy.
It makes no sense when you preach of a God of Love who Judges and rolls out "justice". Judgment is fear based and is the opposite of Love.
Because in this world there are two main forces. Love and Fear. My God is a God of Love and is Love based. Your God is a God of fear and is fear based.
A fear based God is what the Devil embraces. Fear makes you separate from God. Love brings you unity with God.
Wherever the Bible uses certain fear based words, I know this is interjection by man's own fears.
You cannot have a Loving God that is fear based as well. Love is content, and requires no revenge and no justice.
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The kind of love you speak of is strictly worldly and not based in righteousness.
You conveniently overlook the fact that God is a righteous God, and as such his righteous nature
requires that he administer justice to all who violate his law and reject his salvation. Righteousness and Justice are two sides of the same kind. If God ever failed to administer justice, then he would be as inherently unrighteous as you, me and everyone else in the world. And if God is unrighteous and profane like anyone else,
then all bets are off for anything you or anyone else might dream up as a pathetic excuse for "godly" love.
Conversely, God's righteous nature does
not require him to render mercy to any sinner. Nor does God's love require that he be merciful to all his image-bearers. God has provided no salvific remedy to all the fallen angels, for example.
The fear of God is a huge biblical theme in both Testaments. The fact that you ignore them demonstrates your hatred for God holy and righteous nature. This is why you're always bringing God and His Son down to your level. You believe your level of enlightenment and spirituality is so much superior to the Father's and the Son's.
Those who don't know God should fear him since God has the power to "kill" the soul, as well for all eternity.
But those who do know God, they hold Him in reverential awe and respect, having a keen sense of His total
otherness. In fact, if it weren't for Christ, none of would be able to understand the first thing about God!
But you have neither kind of respect for God because to have the one, a true believer
must have had the other at various times in his life. A true sense of God's
otherness engenders also a fear of his justice; for every true believer knows he is fully deserving of God's righteous wrath. You think you can speak so confidently on "what cannot be"? Well, here's what cannot be: One can not say that he has reverential fear for his loving Creator and Redeemer without ever experience the other kind of fear -- the fear of his justice that all believers know they deserve.
As I have said often, the Cross of Jesus Christ
demonstrates God's love and justice. It demonstrates his mercy and well as his anger and wrath. All these things meet and intersect at the Cross of Christ who became the sin bearer for all whom the Father has given to Him. This is precisely why there is no inconsistency or contradiction between love and justice or the love and the fear of God or mercy and divine wrath. God freely chose to be loving and merciful to many sinners on the basis of his grace
which is grounded in his righteousness and holiness; while at the same time also choosing to administer justice to many others on the same basis of his righteousness and justice -- absent the grace. For God's righteousness does not morally require him to be gracious to anyone.
As I have very, very often said: God could not save the first soul, apart from being true to his righteous NATURE and serving JUSTICE.
At the end of the day, you must wind up totally ignoring a huge body of soteriological passages in both Testaments in addition to the fear of God, such as the doctrines of Reconciliation, Propitiation, Redemption, Atonement, etc. And all of these doctrines
complement the Fear of God doctrine.
But hey...we all know you're a true lover of Buddha. You may have others fooled here...but not this writer. You're trusting in the man-made religion of Buddhism to get you wherever you think you are headed after death. Good luck with that.
