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God Loves Everyone, But Love Is Not Approval

The speaker addresses the question of whether God truly loves everyone, using the Amalekites as a test case. He argues that God loves all people without exception, but that love does not equal approval of their actions. Divine judgment, such as the punishment of the Amalekites, does not cancel God's love.

The Bible presents God as both loving and just, and these attributes coexist without contradiction. The discussion turns on the distinction between love and approval, and the error of using God's judgment to deny his love or using his love to deny his judgment. The speaker notes that atheists often cite the Amalekites to challenge God's love, but punishment and love are not mutually exclusive.

He emphasizes that God's love does not give freedom to live in sin, and that neither attribute cancels the other.

Key moments

  1. God loves everyone, no exceptions.
  2. Just because God loves you doesn't mean he approves of everything you do; love isn't the same thing as approval.
  3. God's love doesn't mean we are free to live in sin.
  4. Atheists bring up the Amalekites, but just because God judges or punishes someone doesn't mean he doesn't love them.
  5. Punishment and love aren't mutually exclusive.
  6. The Bible teaches that God is both loving and just.
  7. You can't take God's judgment and pretend it disproves his love just like you can't take his love and pretend it eliminates his judgment.
3 opinions in the discussion 3 participants The opinion with the most support He loves them, but telling someone that this behavior is sinful is NOT hate. God calls us to actively repent more than we ask for forgiveness. That's the main point. So it's still a sin. Read the discussion
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  • opinion#2238

    He loves them, but telling someone that this behavior is sinful is NOT hate. God calls us to actively repent more than we ask for forgiveness. That's the main point. So it's still a sin.

  • opinion#2239

    BASED TAKE! I love my kids. When they do wrong, they get punished. That doesn't mean I stop loving them. It means I love them more. I want better for them.

  • opinion#2237

    Let's set some ground rules first. Yes, God is all-loving, but he's also just and righteous. You can't set his attributes against each other or you end up worshipping a god of your own making. Since God is just, there has to be punishment for crimes against him. Even here on earth, when someone commits a crime against a judge, prosecutors push for enhanced punishment, because an offense against a judge is treated as an offense against the law itself. So when people (or angels like Satan and his followers) sin against an eternal God, they're offending an infinitely supreme, eternal judge. The punishment therefore has to be eternal, otherwise how would God be just? But because God is all-loving, he chose to pay our penalty himself by stepping out of eternity into humanity through the incarnation of Jesus, fully God and fully man. He lived the perfect life we couldn't, kept every one of God's laws without sin, and let himself be tortured, impaled, crucified and killed, absorbing infinite sins as a perfect living sacrifice. Because of that finished work, he can justly lift the eternal punishment of death and hell from anyone who puts genuine faith in him. People will still object: "it's not fair, why should I burn forever just for not believing?" My answer: you don't actually want fair. Fair would be all of us going to hell with no way out. God isn't fair in the sense that he…