Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

Do you forgive people who offend you if they repent and are baptized in your name and love you more than anyone else and have faith in you and call you lord? Will you "hew them down" and "cast them into the fire" if they are not fruitful -- i.e. if they don't serve you well enough?

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

I want to be, but I never will be. His mercy is unlimited.

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

Do you have more conditions than God does?

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

Great questions Timmy!

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

In my flesh yes. My carnal mind works the opposite of His will. I measure everything by flawed human thinking. Unconditional love and everlasting mercy coming through me will only be the result of a supernatural act of God. Only He can love and forgive like that. It's a fruit of the Spirit, not a product of my
will.

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

Unconditional? Have you actually read the Bible? :lol

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

as soon as someone is baptized in my name and calls me Lord, I'll let you know . . .

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

:heeheehee

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Really? Thanks! ;)

Re: Are you as forgiving as God is?
 

Trying to fit God into our human way of thinking doesn't work. It's like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It doesn't work. God is not limited to our time budget, to our thoughts or our ways.

Reading the book of Job shows you how one man sought to ask questions of God with answers that boggled his mind and understanding, and he finally had to come to this conclusion:

Job 42:1-6
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2 I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee.

3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

Job realized in all his questioning, and searching of God, that there are many questions and things that he couldn't understand, and too wonderful for him to know.

In all our human reasoning, thought processes, and searches, we will NEVER truly understand God, because He is the creator, and we are the created.

Job says in Job 42:5 "but now mine eye seeth thee" - this is what it takes - ultimately it boils down to FAITH. I believe he was saying, I see you now God with eyes of faith. I may not understand you, or comprehend your greatness, but I see you now with eyes of faith.

It does us all well to ponder the greatness of God, and remember the insignificance of our flesh. Puts things into perspective, and makes the tough questions you ask easier by just learning trust, and not have to know and understand it all, but just to have faith... as did Job.