There is a fundamental difference between love and approval.
God loves all people unconditionally. This means there are no conditions needed to be met to merit His love.
God loves the worst sinner just as much as He loves the best saint.
Being Love, God can do nothing else.
This does not mean that He approves of all of our actions.
Some people call this "love the sinner, hate the sin."
Anyone who states, "God hates these people or those people" does not understand basic Christianity.
Here are a couple of quotes about God as Love from C. S. Lewis that I really like:
"He [God] has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. .... Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved; ... mere "kindness" which tolerates anything except suffering in its object is, in that respect, at the opposite pole from Love."
"You ask for a loving God; you have one ... not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, not the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the CONSUMING FIRE HIMSELF, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes..."
"The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
See also the fourth chapter of the first letter of John.
With love in Christ.
2007-06-09 16:52:44
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answered by imacatholic2 7
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Simple .... you hypnotize yourself into thinking that is the case. Isn't that is what done by most god fearing religion?
2007-06-08 05:30:51
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answered by Anonymous
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