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Originally Posted by Aquila
To say that God is holy is like saying that God is loving. Both are absolutely true. However, while God is both holy and loving, God is not holiness. Scripture states that God is love. Living love. It is that living love (who is personified in the very eternal being of God) that is holy.
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There you go again.
Holiness is the product of being holy, it is not the same. God is holy.
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Originally Posted by Aquila
God describes Himself as being "holy". God also describes Himself as being "just". Is God holiness personified or justice personified? Neither. Scripture speaks ontologically that God is love. God is love personified. Now, He is definitely both holy and just. But the very essence of His substance is love. Thus we can conclude that any action God takes in relation to His being holy or in relation to Him being just is... predicated upon love. If He were holiness, every action would be predicated upon that... not love. If he were justice, every action would demand pure justice without exception. But since God IS love... all actions wherein various attributes come into play can be said to be rooted in the very essence of His substance... love.
As a result, even the most fearsome of judgment is an expression of God's love... for He is love. Being love, it can be no other way.
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We'll have to agree to disagree. I believe God's absolute nature is what it says over and over in the Bible, that He is holy. You believe that God is love. You ignore several scriptures which state "I AM holy," yet cling to
1 John 4:8 where it says "God is love."
BTW, nowhere in scripture does God say "I am love," but it is written, "I am holy."
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