The love of God --- verses --- the wrath of God... info?
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God states: "My Mercy precedes My Punishment".  Everyone is given an opportunity to take advantage of God's Mercy and ultimate rewards.  Those who fail to capitalize on His Mercy and deny His favors unto them will have simply missed the boat and landed themselves in the Lake of Wrath.\n\nThat said, not every unfortunate event that takes place in people's lives is considered wrath:  some of it may be punishment, some of it may be a test for the person enduring it, and some of it may be a test for people witnessing it to see how they react.  But God's ultimate punishment will be in the hereafter; not in this life.\n\nAlso, let's not forget that if a God-worshipping righteous person dies, chances are he/she will end up in Heaven.  Thus, a mere person's death is not a form of punishment.  It may even be a reward.
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"1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.\n4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. \n8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. \n11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. \n13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love." \n\n~ 1 Corinthians 13 \n\nIt's a beautiful passage that even non-Christains can enjoy.  The language is flowing and passionate, and it explains the one thing that a life is not complete without - Love.
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I was wondering the same thing.\n\nThe evil lord is using his bag of tricks, disguises, deceit\netc... to get a rise out of GOD's children and he is using\n(as usual) those who are blind to his coup of garbage.\n\nThe e*** one always goes after the hurt, lonely etc...\n\nThis world and time are the e*** one's plate and you can\nbe sure that he or it will fill every millimeter on that\nplate so that he or it won't suffer with the gas, acid\nreflux alone.\n\nPray. \nPray for all the people even with the angry or vile statements and yes, we are to shake our feet so to \nspeak and walk off. If you feel that you can show\nsomeone Christ's love, then keep at it with love.\n\nChoose who to answer to when you see questions and see\nif they are repeatedly antagonizing christians, if they\nare do not respond anymore to that individual.\n\nIt hurts me too when I see hurting souls that the e***\none has captured. Remember Jesus can save even the most\ndisgruntled person. I wouldn't say that a person who\nblasphemes could be in a posistion to listen, but many,\nmany people can be saved and will be saved.\n\nStay strong StephenAlan and I too will be standing along with you.\n\nIsa:40:28: Hast thou not known?  hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?  there is no searching of his understanding.\nIsa:40:30: Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:\nIsa:40:31: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.(KJV)
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Love God\nLove His Word/His Law\nLove everyone
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You've got it mixed up. This is the actual scripture:\n\nFor God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\n\nNowhere does it say God killed Jesus.\n\nGod gave his Son to the people to show His eternal Love for us. \n\nThe misguided people killed Jesus.
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The following text is what it's all about for a Chrisitan.\n\n1 John 4\n7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. \n\n13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. \n        God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. \n\n19We love because he first loved us. 20If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.\n\nI have personally seen God work in my life, I have allowed him to lead me since I graduated college, and have ended up where I never would have believed.  He has answered my prayers in the past, he has given me guidance, I have seen him work through friends and family.  He has even graciously given me dreams in which angels have appeared to reaffirm my faith.  I love God, for I know him and know his love for me.\n\nRomans 1:20\nFor since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
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Understanding the loving nature of God is difficult when you chose to blame everything negative that happens on God.\n\nGod is not responsible for these things, we are.\n\nBlaming it all on God is convenient but it is just using God for a scapegoat, it is not truth.\n\nDon't misunderstand I do understand the thought process that leads to these feelings that God is not loving. For years I ascribed to them, and felt the same way.\n\nOnce I figured out that it was just nonsense that I had been thinking I got over it.\n\nNow I appreciate the love that comes from the source even if I don't always like what I make from it.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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After much thought and research, I have come to realize that the God of the OT was/is the same as the God of the new.  And He is love.  He showed great love before the flood, when the earth proved bad and He was heartbroken (Biblically, He was hurt in His heart.)  Although He had regrets that He had created mankind because of the evil disposition of man, He sent Noah to warn everyone that all they had to do was enter the Ark to be saved.  That's it.  No blood atonement, nothing.  Just get on the boat.  Of course, we know the end of the story.  And He showed great love to Abraham, who beseeched God to turn His great wrath aside from Sodom and Gomorrah if he, Abraham, could find 50 righteous amongst them.  God obliged Abraham, even down to 10.  There were none found, and God destroyed them all.  But, He always, ALWAYS gives us a way out.  It's just that we are either too wicked, selfish, stupid, stubborn or blind to take it.
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1 John 4:7-8\n\n"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
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There is no specific historical context or date for this psalm. There are five sections for the Psalms, with section I being Ps 1-41, II being Ps 42-72, III being Ps 73-89, IV being Ps 90-106, and V being Ps 107-150. \n\nSo, this passage falls under section IV, and that section is composed of mostly anonymous Psalms, with some attributed to David.\n\nThe synopsis I have for chap 92 is as follows - \n\n"A Psalm of descriptive praise (see Ps 113), celebrates the person and work of God in an exuberant way. The psalm also includes several wisdom themes. The title is unusual in that it attaches the designation "for the Sabbath day". The poem has four brief sections: 1. an encouragement for the people to respond to God in praise and worship (V. 1-4) 2. a celebration of the wisdom of God in bringing judgement on the wicked (v 5-9), 3. an acknowledgement of the mercy of God who has established the believer's present life (v. 10, 11) and\n\n(the section to which you refer)\n\n 4. and anticipation of the mercy of God that will continue in the life to come (v 12-15)"\n\nThe verses you list are commented on thus...\n\n92:11-15...\n\n"Tha language of this section speaks of God's contuinuing blessing on the believer not only in this life but also in the life to come (ps 23) The tree image recalls the words of 1:3."
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Ro 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. \nRo 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. \nRo 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. \nASK ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU WANT TO OK.
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I love "The Greatest Command" it's a beautiful accapella 4 part harmony round.\n\nAlto comes in first and sings "Love one another, for love is of God. He who loves is born of God and knows God.  He who does not love, does not know God. For God is love, God is love, God is love.\n\n2nd time: tenor joins in and sings: " God is love"  over and over.\n\n3rd time:bass sings a line that begins: "Love bears all things"  but I can't remember the rest\n\n4th time: sopranoes come in and sing: "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, all thy mind.  Love the Lord thy God with thy heart for God is love, God is love, God is love.\n\nThen the finale:  all the parts sing through one time.  It is absolutely AMAZING! Songs like these are what make me partial to acappella worship songs.  I don't need instruments when there are songs like these.
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Dear: Love    GOD is LOVE.They are afraid of the TRUTH.Mans Heart is far away from GOD.Jesus said if you follow me you will also be persecuted,your reward will be in HEAVEN.Be of good cheer for GOD never sleeps,and sees our works.      GOD BLESS
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Which is it?\n\n\n"Thou shalt not kill." - Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17\n\n"God is not the author of confusion but of peace." - 1 Corinthians 14:33\n\n-OR-\n\n"Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. " - Exodus 32:27\n\n"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." - 1 Samuel 15:2-3\n\n\nInfants and sucklings?? Defenseless animals?? If that is not outright murderous debauchery, then what is? And this coming from a God of justice and love??\n\n****************************************\n\nIt was impossible for God to lie." - Hebrews 6:18\n\n-OR-\n\n"God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned." - 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12\n\n****************************************\n.\n"Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth." - Proverbs 24:17\n\n-OR-\n\n"The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked." - Psalm 58:10\n\n****************************************\n\n"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" - 2 Peter 3:9.\n\n-OR-\n\nThe Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. -  Proverbs 16:4\n\n"God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned." - 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12\n\n****************************************\n\n"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." - James 1:13\n\n-OR-\n\n"God did tempt Abraham." - Genesis 22:1\n\n****************************************\n\n"Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart." - Leviticus 19:17\n\n-OR-\n\n"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." - Luke 14:26\n\n****************************************\n\nI am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. - Jeremiah 3:12\n\n Then later in the very same book....\nYe have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. - Jeremiah 17:4\n\n****************************************\n\n"But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." - Titus 3:9\n\n"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." - I Timothy 1:4\n\n(Yet, the Bible is rift with long, boring genealogies.)\n\n****************************************\n\n"And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." - Genesis 6:13\n\nGod was angry because "the earth was filled with violence." So he killed every living thing with a flood to make the world less violent??\n\n****************************************\n\n"And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory."  - Revelation 16:9\n\n(Glory for what? Being burned to death?)\n\n****************************************\n\nFaith like this does not give you answers, it just stops you from asking questions.
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Glenda   --\n\nSince this is your only activity, I do not know if this is a loaded question or not.  For the sake of possible true interest, I will take the time to answer as best as I can.\nI am curious as to why you broke the passage down into two verse segments.  The entire 82nd Psalm is titled A psalm of Asaph.  It is presumed to be written by Asaph, who was a Levite leader of the choir of King David.\n\nVerses 1&2 is the introduction.  Asaph summarizes by saying that Divinity has judged the mighty ones (the elohim).  In this case, he was referring to the court judges, not pagan gods.  This is followed by the results of that Divine judgment, the admonition in the form of a question:  How much longer will you (the judges) favor the wicked with your unfair decisions?\n\nThis is punctuated with the Hebrew word Seleh.  This could be a fanfare or a choral response (or even a verbal equivalent of the Christian Amen).  It is often translated into English as an Interlude.\n\nVerses 3&4 lists the primary failures of the Judges, or at least tells them what they should be doing.  Hebrew use of shame.  Basically it calls for the Judges to stand up for the rights of those with little or no political power: the poor, the orphans, the needy, the afflicted or oppressed.  Help these out of the clutches of wicked.\n\nVerses 5&6 list the position of the wicked oppressors:  they are ignorant and without wisdom.  They are in darkness, but because they do not know this , they shake the entire world.  Again Asaph calls upon the Judges as the mighty ones (elohim), but not reminds them that all of humanity are children of the Most High.\n\nVerses 7&8 sum the concepts saying that even the Judges are men and will pass on.  Divinity will judge the earth and reveal the legacy.\n\nMy Hebrew is a little rusty, so please forgive any minor mistakes. The most confusing part of the text is the use of the word elohim (which is plural) and is similar to the singular form of the word used to address Divinity.  The King James version translates this as the word gods.
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I hope this helps you.\nhttp://www.dltk-bible.com/poems.htm
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When I was a kid I went to church, and I really liked the sign on the wall that read, "God is Love." \n\nThen I started to read the Bible, and in shock and dismay I read about an angry, murderous, misogynist, spoiled brat of a deity who is in seeeerrrrious need of a time-out. Or a spanking, for preference.\n\nI could not reconcile the two in my head, and I decided that I really believe in Love over anything the Bible had to say. So, when the two clashed, the Bible lost. Later studies of the history of the Bible confirmed my hunch that it was a man-made document and not divine.\n\nOver the years, my study of religions made me start to think that people's religious experiences had some interesting things in common... and perhaps all the personification of deities are mere metaphors for something bigger even than 'God', and are well-meaning but misguided attempts to define something indefinable.\n\nSo THAT's what I really believe in... not a deity and most certainly not the Christian deity, but something more abstract.