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1 | Why do i need to love god? | John 3:16 | Inquisitor | 223404 | ||
As you have stated, we are to love God but He would much rather that we love Him on a voluntary basis rather than feel a "requirement" to do so. The biggest, most powerful reason we SHOULD love God is so we can go to Heaven. In the beginning as provided by Genesis, mankind had a very special, face-to-face relationship with God. But we lost that special relationship when sin was introduced into the world. Now God has sent His Son to fulfill a promise God made after closing down that Garden of Eden. He provided the ONLY Way for any human being to go to Heaven and that is done by obeying God's Commandments or His Son's Last Will and Testament which was executed by the Holy Spirit through His Apostles. Again we find ourselves loving God as described in 1 John BUT we MUST also love our fellow man in obedience to God. If we don't love our fellow man and claim to love God, He calls such a person a liar. So you see this loving of God most probably comes upon us in a gradual sort of way, like refining of silver. That process takes a lot of heat and much patience as depicted in Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. As you grow in maturity and experience, you will realize the value of these words far more than you do at this moment. BTW, welcome to the Forum. It's so refreshing to see such a young person come to the Forum in this way. Praise the Lord and God bless you. Inquisitor |
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2 | Why do i need to love god? | John 3:16 | Beja | 223412 | ||
Inquisitor, Your statements: "The biggest, most powerful reason we SHOULD love God is so we can go to Heaven." "Now God has sent His Son to fulfill a promise God made after closing down that Garden of Eden. He provided the ONLY Way for any human being to go to Heaven and that is done by obeying God's Commandments or His Son's Last Will and Testament which was executed by the Holy Spirit through His Apostles." Sir, you have just forwarded a false gospel. Perhaps you don't realise the implications of what you are saying. We go to heaven by loving God? We go to heaven by obeying his commandments? According to Romans 3:10-18 there is not a one of us who loves God. The things you describe is a result of salvation and regeneration, not the means of salvation! We are NOT saved through our obedience, we are saved through the obediance of Jesus Christ, and the death of Jesus Christ in our place. (2 Cor 5:21, Isaiah 53). God grants us HIS righteousness not from our doing any thing, but purely and solely through faith. (Romans 3:24-26; Romans 4:1-8; Gal 2:15,16; Romans 5:1,2). Please look up these verses and read them carefully. We must understand our utter bankruptcy before God with regards to our own righteousness, and put our faith (TRUST) in nothing we can do but only in that Christ has fulfilled all expectations for us and paid the price required of all our failures. HE is our rightousness before God, and nothing else. Do not mistake the passages in 1 John that explain what will unavoidably follow salvation, and confuse them for things that merit or cause salvation. In Christ, Beja |
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3 | Why do i need to love god? | John 3:16 | Makarios | 223414 | ||
Excellent post, Beja! Ephesians 2:5 "even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)," Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;" Your brother in Christ, Makarios |
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