God is Love.
Therefore...
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
www.MercifulTruth.com puts it beautifully:
It seems pretty clear that if God were to send people to unrelenting torment for not saying the right words or believing the right thing, then he would not be patient and certainly not kind. He would be demanding his own way. He would be keeping a record of us having wronged him. My friends, He would be disregarding the Bible's very own meaning of Love - in addition, failing to save all men, Christ's very purpose in life. However, if every person is to be saved, nobody is forever lost, and no suffering is eternal, then his death on the cross would be completely fruitful, and triumphant in what it was meant to do. God would dwell in a fullness. "Love never gives up." 1 Corinthians 13:7
Today, we will not question God, but man. And, let us no longer question God's love but man's careless estimations of Scripture, and God's power to save the world through Jesus Christ, that we may trust in His love - knowing that though men lie, He is yet faithful.
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The eventual salvation of ALL is the only outcome worthy of God and the love He promises to all his lambs in scripture.
2 comments:
Thanks for posting the link to Merciful Truth and helping to spread the word about the salvation of all.
My pleasure. I find that realizing this Truth has transformed the way I see people, too. I look at people now with much more compassion than I once did. When you realize ALL are God's children and ALL are subject to His mercy, then you lose the "glasses of judgment". God Bless!
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