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Is God
loving or judgemental?
| God is both loving and judgemental. The
Bible tells us of his love throughout the Bible when God expressed his enormous love
through forgiveness and provisions - even after his people intentionally disobeyed him.
Most importantly, God expressed infinite love by coming to earth in human form as Jesus
Christ, and dying the most severely painful death to fulfill the perfect sacrifice. A
blood-sacrifice (God said repeatedly) was necessary for salvation. Humans typically
understand sacrifice as a means of redemption (e.g. paying a penalty when you’ve done
something wrong). Imagine how much greater the sacrifice must be for ALL our sins. It
would be against God’s nature to ignore sin by not judging us. Likewise it would not
be just, and we know God is "just" [Ex 23:1-9; Mt 23:23, Lk 18:7; Rom 3:26]. We
also know God is the ultimate meaning of love. So how do you combine a just (judging) God,
requiring sacrifice - with a infinitely loving God? An infinitely loving God would
sacrifice even himself in a horrible way, to pay the sacrifice (judgement) of sin of
others - EVEN those that hate him. That’s what Jesus did. God is forgiving of all
sins; EXCEPT blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. If you are exposed to the TRUTH of Jesus, you
can be sure God is prompting you through the Holy Spirit. Rejecting it - IS blasphemy of
the Holy Spirit. BEWARE of people who describe a "Jesus" or "Christ"
that is not totally and completely consistent with the Bible. |
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