God demands our love?
 

True or False:

If you don't love God, He'll kill you.

Re: God demands our love?
 

True. :D

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Wow, 2 votes already, and it's a tie between True and False!

Keep those votes comin', folks! We need to get an answer to this one, for sure! :lol

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True breaks into the lead, 2 to 1. Too early to call, of course.

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Timmy, just wanted to let you know that I think of you whenever I watch the Veggietales "Josh and the Big Wall."

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The scoffing French Peas? :lol

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It was tied again a minute ago, and now True takes the lead again. It's a tight race!

But "Neither" isn't out of the gate yet!

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False. He doesn't kill you.

His holiness demands a response to unrighteousness, even while He still loves us. In effect, it's not murder, it's Holiness. It's a cause and effect.

He's offered a way to escape the curse we've brought on ourselves through disobedience. If we decline, we continue to die and are condemned. If we accept His love, we don't. It's a picture of a Saving God, not a "I Gotcha" God.

Try putting a human mind around that.

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking...

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But God set it up that way, rigiht? He made the rules. And, being God, He could have set it up differently. Besides, the poll doesn't say anything about murder. It says "kill".

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God did kill a lot of people in the literal sense, did He not?

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Condemned. Judged. Killed. Sure.

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:thumbsup Jean Claude and Philippe

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OK. Now, if I myself do not love God, I will die as a result of that, correct? It's a sin not to love God. The wages of sin is death. I will not have eternal life! Correct? So, whether or not God throws some kind of spiritual switch to make it happen, He has set things up so that I will reap the rewards of the unrepentant sin.

Right?

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Oh, and since God has killed people before (condemned and judged and killed babies, children, adults, etc.), it is not unreasonable to think that He will again kill the rest of us (the ones who deserve to be killed, I mean), is it?

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Kinda stuck now, at 4-3. I guess I could vote, and tie it up again. ;)

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Of course, the thread title and the poll question aren't the same. Sorry about that. :D The title asks whether God demands our love. That answer, of course, is yes. Nobody here (other than a few renegades ;)) would say otherwise. The poll question is about the penalty for disobeying the command to love God. I didn't think that would be as controversial as it has turned out (but I should have known better! :lol). Disobeying this command, same as any other, is sin, and the penalty of sin is death. I guess some don't think God will do the killing, so they voted False.

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Somebody voted "Neither". Somebody want to explain? ;)

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yes God is a baby killer.... and your point? Happy? He will destroy the wicked etc... Yes God will MURDER YOU if you don't do what he says! Happy yet? :-/

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That thought does not make me happy, no. But I am happy to say I no longer believe it. :thumbsup

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timmy who knows what you believe. I don't even think you know what you believe.

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:blink

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Just because you don't believe it doesn't make it not so! Why take chances? Your soul is too important and Eternity is long.:)

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Just because you don't believe Islam doesn't make that not so. Or Mormonism. Or the Roman Catholics. Why take chances? Better go with all of them!

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I'll stay with Jesus and His Word of Truth. He is my only Chance!! There is not another! :thumbsup

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If you guessed right, yeah! :thumbsup

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"Neither."

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'Splain?

Re: God demands our love?
 

If you don't love God, you will destroy yourself.

There is no injustice in God.


If my "No" vote contradicts scripture, then I vote to be on the same side as God always.

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To me.......there is no guessing involved....I simply trust and believe and have no doubt that Jesus, My Saviour will indeed save me and take me to be with Him some day soon! :bliss

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Timmy,

Just curious. Have you ever gone to God with your questions?

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God has answered me many times in the past.

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I wouldn't be surprised if Timmy became a holy ghost fire preacher in the future.

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Yes. If God literally answered me, it was by opening my eyes to what was going on. I've never heard an audible voice, but I have felt some kind of guidance. That's how I got where I am.

For the record, I don't think that God literally made a conscious effort to plant thoughts in my head (nor did Satan!). ;)

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:heeheehee

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Muslims say they are not guessing, either, I suppose.

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Oh, and Mormons don't have to guess, either! They have that burning in the bosom! :lol