If so then that
certainly goes against what many people believe. Let's take a look.
John 16:25-28(NKJV)
“These things I have
spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no
longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about
the Father.
In that day you will
ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for
you;
for the Father Himself loves
you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from
God.
I came forth from
the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the
Father.”
BECAUSE
Jesus plainly says
that God loves us BECAUSE we loved Jesus and believe that Jesus came from
God.
But does that mean
the God doesn't love us if we don't love Jesus and believe that Jesus came from
God?
As I've written
before, I don't think you can take any one verse and use it as a definitive
statement on anything. The Bible is a
book of balance and needs to be taken in its entirety.
Here is my take on
it. Scripture makes it very clear that
when we reject Jesus we offend God. In
fact Jesus went so far as to say it is a sin to reject Jesus. Another part of Scripture tells us that when
we reject Jesus we declare ourselves enemies of God.
But even then does
God totally cut off His love from those people or does it simply switch to a
different love.
Let me give you an
example. I have had more than one client
disinherit one of their children. Does
that mean they don't love that child anymore?
Not at all. But it does mean
their love has taken a different form.
They still love the child and hope the child abandons the behavior that
got them disinherited in the first place.
But it is a "distant" love if that makes sense.
This is certainly an issue that bears more study.
This is certainly an issue that bears more study.
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