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1 | Does separation from God mean no love? | Bible general Archive 4 | Scooter | 196393 | ||
I've been reading a bit about other religions and what they believe, and one thing I can not understand is things such as characteristics of God, Satan and people. No people are all pretty much something we understand best as we can see that in our daily lives. And God, we experience his nature, or most try to anyway. So what I'm wondering is that God has all the basic feelings such as love, anger and hate, and although his hate may be of sin and anger against us, what types of feelings does satan have? I do not ask this in disrespect. I feel that hell is basically a separation from God, so does that mean that people can still experience love in hell? Does that mean satan loves as well? When Satan was cast into hell, or even upon this earth, did that mean he changed and no longer knows peace, love, contentment? Does that mean when a person's soul is cast into hell do they lose all characteristics which are part of God? On the other hand, in heaven do we still experience hatred, anger or is everything all about love? I believe the Bible says somewhere there will be no tears in heaven, so does that mean you will never experience grieving? Jesus wept and experienced grief but yet was God. Doesn't God experience sadness at the loss of a believing person who may have turned away? Can a true believer really turn away once forgiven? I know this is a sunject of much debate, but I do believe if you can allow God into your heart then you can also send him away. Hell is going to have many people who never accepted the free gift of forgiveness, but still believed in God and thought they were going to heaven. So when all these souls are cast into hell, is it all going to be separation from God with no ability to feel peace, love, kindness, etc? To know your enemy, are Satan and all his demons roaming the earth filled with anger, hate, rage and everything bad, or do they experience love also? Does separation from God mean separation from love? Does death take away characteristics experinced here in human form, dependant on whether you are in heaven or hell? |
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2 | Does separation from God mean no love? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 196394 | ||
Hello Scooter, Here is something you may remember writing, that I believe is true, remember, satin is the author of confusion, so hold on to the truth. "there is no darkness in light. There is no hate in love, and there is no sin with God." God bless John |
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3 | Does separation from God mean no love? | Bible general Archive 4 | Scooter | 196395 | ||
So perhaps love, hate, light and darkness as to how they are perceived within our finite minds are not being seen in their pure form. I would think love not from God can be mixed with perversion, envy, greed, jealosy, etc. Therefore I need to conclude that perhaps these emotions can exist sperate from God, but with God they exist pure and perfect. |
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4 | Does separation from God mean no love? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 196398 | ||
Hi Scooter, Well, the things you mention as being "mixed" with love, are not love. The later three, they are emotions; now that's not to say that love does not evoke emotion, man, does it ever! But the love that is being spoken of in the Bible, is not the kind of love you would normaly mix with those negative kinds of emotions, envy, greed, jealousy, etc. and, "perversion" is another issue altogether, perversion stems form a desire to have un-biblical or, i.e. sex outside of the guidelines set-forth by God, that is also a part of what is called erotic love, or Eros, I think in greek, that is not love, that is a misunderstanding that man has adopted, and is quite popular, [unfortunately]; what that is, is lust! Agape love, which is pure love, cannot be experienced apart from God. Here is something els that may help you. God bless John : Easton's Bible Dictionary LOVE This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with "Simon, the son of Jonas," after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, "Lovest thou me?" he uses the Greek word _agapas_; and when Simon answers, he uses the Greek word _philo_, i.e., "I love." This is the usage in the first and second questions put by our Lord; but in the third our Lord uses Simon's word. The distinction between these two Greek words is thus fitly described by Trench:, "_Agapan_ has more of judgment and deliberate choice; _philein_ has more of attachment and peculiar personal affection. Thus the 'Lovest thou' (Gr. agapas) on the lips of the Lord seems to Peter at this moment too cold a word, as though his Lord were keeping him at a distance, or at least not inviting him to draw near, as in the passionate yearning of his heart he desired now to do. Therefore he puts by the word and substitutes his own stronger 'I love' (Gr. philo) in its room. A second time he does the same. And now he has conquered; for when the Lord demands a third time whether he loves him, he does it in the word which alone will satisfy Peter ('Lovest thou,' Gr. phileis), which alone claims from him that personal attachment and affection with which indeed he knows that his heart is full." In 1 Corinthians 13 the apostle sets forth the excellency of love, as the word "charity" there is rendered in the Revised Version. |
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