Sinful housework

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by shazeep

nice. although it might be two 'steps,' it could also be 3, or 7 for a category, or even 10 or unlimited? As, who can ever approach God?bingo why isn't this preached? it is how Christ introduced an initiate. Count the cost and Every inch of skin will be stripped from you. And yes, the only real joy you will ever find. how much more powerful this would be rather than cornering someone and recruiting them in fear.
i've come to see the mechanism of it more like a self-destruction, God not even 'doing' it really, but the inability of sin to even exist around God. i dislike 'love demands hatred' because that is not what Christ demonstrates; and i've a pretty good argument that attributing our emotions, hate, or even love as we understand it, to God, is anthropomorphising (even when done in Scripture) that i'm sure yu'd agree with.

Don't think in terms of mechanism. Think in terms of person. God is a person, not a mechanism. God is an all powerful, intelligent being who is love itself.