01-01-2025, 11:53 PM
(01-01-2025, 07:18 AM)sclim Wrote: the argument assume that love only apply to good. love is towards all. good or evil itself is in doubt as different yard stick is used to measure good and bad. so a same event will have different view of good and evil.
fruit of good and bad was consume before ready.
God's grace, tree of life is also given. Jesus Christ is the eternal life. communion. thru Him all will live. if no love for each other how to exist as one ?
Thanks for sharing. The thing is, evil cannot exist in and of itself. It depends on the corruption of that which is good for its existence and power. It's only in light of the good that evil becomes a problem. If evil is real, it points to the good. We can account for the origin of good but not of evil. Evil remains a perplexing mystery, but the force of the mystery isn't enough to demand that we throw out the positive evidence for God.
I'm at one with you on the theme of love. Proverbs 10:12 says, "love covereth all sins." First Peter 4:8 says, "charity (or love) shall cover a multitude of sins." Put these two scriptures together, and they say, "Love covers all sins even when there's a multitude of them."
Love must begin to work with the sin problem. Love will not work for us until we're born again and the genuine love of God will cover, hide, and put out of sight more sins than we can even name.
Christians are called to love the unlovely. Most of us, however, want the unlovely to straighten up first. We use a different yardstick to assess our own spiritual condition. We tend to judge ourselves against other people, usually people we deem worse than we are. Faith that works by love will measure up to all of the standards set down in the Word of God.