Agape Love for Men, Women, Young and Old

[Q.E.D.]

The Certainty of God’s Judgments

Last Day Events, Pages 240-241

"God’s love is represented in our day as being of such a character as would forbid His destroying the sinner. Men reason from their own low standard of right and justice. “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself” (Psalm 50:21). They measure God by themselves. They reason as to how they would act under the circumstances and decide God would do as they imagine they would do.... LDE 241.5

In no kingdom or government is it left to the lawbreakers to say what punishment is to be executed against those who have broken the law. All we have, all the bounties of His grace which we possess, we owe to God. The aggravating character of sin against such a God cannot be estimated any more than the heavens can be measured with a span. God is a moral governor as well as a Father. He is the Lawgiver. He makes and executes His laws. Law that has no penalty is of no force. LDE 241.1

The plea may be made that a loving Father would not see His children suffering the punishment of God by fire while He had the power to relieve them. But God would, for the good of His subjects and for their safety, punish the transgressor. God does not work on the plan of man. He can do infinite justice that man has no right to do before his fellow man. Noah would have displeased God to have drowned one of the scoffers and mockers that harassed him, but God drowned the vast world. Lot would have had no right to inflict punishment on his sons-in-law, but God would do it in strict justice. LDE 241.2

Who will say God will not do what He says He will do?"

Manuscript Releases 12:207-209; Manuscript Releases 10:265 (1876). Last Day Events, Pages 240-241

Q.E.D.

[Robert]

And the curse of the law is God abandonment.

Again, you have ears, but cannot hear. You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have a mouth, but it only perverts the truth.

[Tom Wetmore]

Strangely oxymoronic to title a thread as being about agape love and immediately launch into a quote-fest about anger, wrath, destroying, etc.

Nice try at disguising yet another tirade about the wrath of God.

There is a reason these topics keep getting shut down. It does nothing to accurately portray God and only brings out the worst qualities in those wishing to hammer each other to death with their pet arguments.

So, before this once again entirely deteriorates into a most unChristian verbal battle, I am locking it.

FInd another topic. Really dwell on God's love. If you can't find another forum to pound the pulpit with your version of hell fire and brimstone.

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