Repenting of your sin is a condition. You can’t love Jesus till then because you haven’t even met him yet, and you won’t till you’re born again. Reach out in faith, accept, then get to know…that’s how it works…
Well, there are things that God hates. Its not an absence of love or a not love thing, it is hate. If God created all things created then hate, as it should be applied, is created by God. Its bastardization is from sin. Hate of social injustice, hate of racism, hate of taking advantage of the downtrodden all all examples of “holy” hate. Racism itself, a corruption of how hate was to be applied.
Because the God in the bible is a narcissist. If things were perfect people would take him for granted but by making people suffer it causes them to worship him in hopes he’ll save them. When something bad happens everyone starts praying. When things are going normal and good people do not as much. Suffering equals worship.
It’s as much “using” Christianity, as it is using my wife. I love her and have a daily relationship with her. I’m sorry you don’t have one GP with The Lord as of yet but by being here, you’re seeking it my friend and I pray you find it.
God gave us all free will. so we are the bad ones, not God. I feel God should grant us with free will with stoppers. No one can break any of the 10 Commandments
So many Christians try that idiotic gambit.
Christians are always trying to absolve God of moral culpability in the fall by whipping out their favorite “free will!”, or “ it’s all man’s fault”.
That is “God gave us free will and it was our free willed choices that caused our fall. Hence God is not blameworthy.”
But this simply avoids God’s culpability as the author of Human Nature. Free will is only the ability to choose. It is not an explanation why anyone would want to choose “A” or “B” (bad or good action). An explanation for why Eve would even have the nature of “being vulnerable to being easily swayed by a serpent” and “desiring to eat a forbidden fruit” must lie in the nature God gave Eve in the first place. Hence God is culpable for deliberately making humans with a nature-inclined-to-fall, and “free will” means nothing as a response to this problem.
If all sin by nature, then the sin nature is dominant. If not, we would have at least some who would not sin. That being the case, for God to punish us for following the instincts and natures he put in us would be quite wrong.
Psalm 51:5 “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.”
My friend…over the years I’ve noticed that those I must pray for the most, are those that attempt to justify themselves…to themselves…by putting those around them down. The relationship I speak of is a much higher place and let those you encounter be your witnesses/judges of your morality?
