Quote:
Originally Posted by Aquila
I would present the following texts:
1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. What makes something "holy"? Holiness itself. Therefore, while God is holy... we don't read that God is "holiness" itself. However, the Bible tells us that God is love. That's a very absolute statement. Now, if God IS love itself... that's the very essence of His nature. Love.
God is love. The God who is love is also holy. But He isn't holiness itself. In fact, anything set aside and separated for God's purposes is also holy.
Are you saying that God is not love? If you don't want to believe that God is love... that's entirely up to you. |
Lets compare scripture with scripture on this topic.
Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Gen. 22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
Notice in both of these passages God is said to have swore by Himself. This begs the question when God is said to sware by Himself because there He could sware by no great then what exactly did He sware by?
Psalms 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn
by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Amos 4:2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Notice when God speaks of swaring by Himself; He is refering to swaring by His holiness. Therefore by compareing these scriptures to each other it becomes clear that God equates holiness as defining Himself.
Why did he not sware by love if that is His nature?
Also nowhere in th Bible does it say that God is "love itself" that wording does not exist.
Threaded Mode
