Zone1 Does Jesus Love Everyone? Does He Love Everyone EQUALLY?

[Carl in Michigan]

To reframe this. The Bible calls believers adopted sons, children of God.

Do most of you love kids? I hope so. I do, and always have.

Do you love all kids equally? Do you love neighbors' kids as much as your own?

Believers are Children of God. Until you are BEGOTTEN of the Holy Spirit, you are God's CREATION, but not His Son or Daughter.

Satan is the god of this world. If you have not the Spirit of Christ, SATAN is your father

 

[sparky]

Satan is the god of this world. If you have not the Spirit of Christ, SATAN is your father

so much for the carrot Carl....... ~S~

 

[ding]

It's funny but most people here don't act like their mortal soul is on the line.

 

[rightwinger]

The more money you put in the collection plate…..the more Jesus loves you

 

[ding]

The more money you put in the collection plate…..the more Jesus loves you

You probably attended the wrong church.

 

[Robert W]

The more money you put in the collection plate…..the more Jesus loves you

Does Jesus love you?

 

[Anathema]

God agrees. In fact, He forgives us while we are committing a sin. It's payment we don't deserve.
Tell me about your spiritual life. What is it like?

After my father died I went on a multi-year search for an answer. I talked to clergy members abd spiritual leaders from about every organized or semi-organized religion and movement I could find.

I asked them one question… one word “Why?” No context, just that one word. The responses were many and varied. They ranged from blank stares and shoulder shrugs to long-winded theological bullshit I’m not even sure they believed.

It was only after I started talking to the more spiritual and less religious folks that I found anything that made sense to me. I realized that the answer had been right in front of my eyes the whole time… “why?” - “because it’s the purpose of the world to **** us over and make our lives as difficult as possible.” It hit me that once I accepted this whole life is a test for the soul and nothing more, the horrors make sense.

What I ended up with was a spiritual system centered around ge idea that “god” isn’t an entity so much as simply a Unicersal power. It exists to put our souls through the most difficult tests possible to determine if we can/will live properly. After death we get judged… those who have truly lived properly get to move on to somewhere better. The unredeemable souls get sent to some sort of eternal damnation and those souls in the middle get a refresher on Right and Wrong and then sent back o try again.

 

[skye]

The more money you put in the collection plate…..the more Jesus loves you

Well that's not how it works....but

If that makes some people feel better....whatever

 

[ding]

“because it’s the purpose of the world to **** us over and make our lives as difficult as possible.”

Whatever you do, don't take a job as a Hallmark card writer.

 

[ding]

It exists to put our souls through the most difficult tests possible to determine if we can/will live properly. After death we get judged… those who have truly lived properly get to move on to somewhere better. The unredeemable souls get sent to some sort of eternal damnation and those souls in the middle get a refresher on Right and Wrong and then sent back o try again.

And you are OK with this "universal power" doing that?

So what is living properly while being put through the most difficult tests possible? What does that look like?

 

[onefour1]

God has called certain faithful followers to receive his gospel first and to carry it unto all the world. The fact that his gospel was to go unto all the world is evidence of his love for all mankind. Jesus, who was made part of the godhead before the world was (John 1:1-3, 14) , volunteered to be the Savior of all mankind before the world was (1 Peter 1:19-21). Jesus wanted us all to have the opportunity to repent and be forgiven of our sins if we would only repent and seek that forgiveness from him. Jesus was a lamb without blemish or spot. In other words, Jesus was the only one born in this world to have never sinned. Yet he suffered for the sins all mankind. So great was his suffering that it caused himself to bleed great drops of blood from every pore of his body. Yet Jesus did not sin even once in this life. All his sufferings were unjust and he deserved a recompense for his unjust sufferings. As a recompense, he was given the right to forgive the repentant sinner. This extended to all mankind since he suffered for all mankind's sins. His sufferings were so great that he gained the recompense that would be the key to all our salvation. Can you imagine the love one must have to sacrifice ones self for the billions or possibly trillions who have ever lived on this earth and ever will live on this earth, and possibly for others on other earths. I don't think the average person could have suffered as he did without dying. As the Son of God he was the offspring in this life of God the Father as well as Mary. Maybe this gave him the capacity to suffer much more than the average mortal being without dying. But why would he put himself through all the suffering and pain and then be whipped and beaten and finally have spikes driven through his body to hang him on a cross to die? The answer is that he did it all because he loved us so dearly that he was willing to go through all that for each and everyone of us. His atonement is for each and everyone of us and his gospel is to go unto all that are in the world.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Well that's not how it works....but

If that makes some people feel better....whatever

Yeah, some follow Simon the Sorcerer and try to buy God's approval

 

[The Irish Ram]

The more money you put in the collection plate…..the more Jesus loves you

Thing is, Jesus doesn't care about your money. He cares about your heart. He's not the bad guy, honest...

Mark 12:43-44 Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury. For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

 

[BreezeWood]

Would love your answers on this. Cite Bible verses if you can.

not those who refer to themselves as christian jew or muslim ...

 

[BreezeWood]

Christianity is the only religion where God sacrificed Himself to save us, rather than the other way around

they were murdered for their repudiation of false commandments found in all three desert religions.

 

[BreezeWood]

Which one died and then came back? His words will endure forever.

your words

you have never provided proof for your fable nor will there ever be fruition for such a fallacy is the tragedy for the claim useful to anyone but the fibbers self interest.

 

[BreezeWood]

You probably attended the wrong church.

everyone knows ...

the church of the bible belt, yours for sure.

 

[The Irish Ram]

everyone knows ...

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the church of the bible belt, yours for sure.

^ Garbage.

 

[sparky]

It's funny but most people here don't act like their mortal soul is on the line.

because they realize an all loving being would not intimidate them into doing so Ding ~S~

 

[Care4all]

Luke 15: 7

PHILLIPS
So Jesus spoke to them, using this parable: “Wouldn’t any man among you who owned a hundred sheep, and lost one of them, leave the ninety-nine to themselves in the open, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he will put it on his shoulders with great joy, and as soon as he gets home, he will call his friends and neighbours together. ‘Come and celebrate with me,’ he will say, ‘for I have found that sheep of mine which was lost.’ I tell you that it is the same in Heaven—there is more joy over one sinner whose heart is changed than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need for repentance.

JUB
I say unto you that likewise there shall be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repents than over ninety-nine just persons, who need no repentance.

KJV
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.