God loves all of you even if no one else does

Originally posted by PRAYERRUN
Dude you can share the gospel of jesus anywhere. Not just a church. If we're not for jesus outside of church, then what the heck are we even bothering to go to church? the reason why I go to church is because I want to get to know my holy father better everyday.....and because I want to fellowship with other christians. It's because I know God that I've been able to get through some of the toughest times in my life. Trust in God and He'll get you through ANYTHING!!!! God is able in all things through Christ Jesus. amen.

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God loves me huh . . .

what if (hypothetically) I really really hated god?

Yep.

If you really, really hate God do you not want to ever be in his presence?

Originally posted by Nellinator
Yep.

If you really, really hate God do you not want to ever be in his presence?

I doubt anyone can truly hate something that doesn't exist

Originally posted by Lord Urizen
I doubt anyone can truly hate something that doesn't exist

Originally posted by Nellinator
Oh you.

Fine. I will rephrase it...I doubt someone can truly hate someone they do not know.....

But then again, I could be wrong. A lot of people who don't truly know me hate me for whatever reason. I'm sure the same could be said for you.

I don't believe in God, so I don't care. Just another mythological deity.

hey ..

How can we be convinced that God exists? 🙄 .. i belive in god strongly ... because iam musliam

and for who do not believe in god i want to say .. i will give you a simple example .

if somebody slapped you .. sorry for this example .. but if somebody slapped you ,, of course .. you will feel pain.. right ?

and after that i will ask you .. did you felt pain ?.. absolutly, you will say yes i felt of pain .. and then if i ask you show me the shape of your pain .. i want to see it .. you will say .. i can not show you the shape of pain but i can feel in pain .. so, This is also the case with God . god is exist .. we can not see him but we can feel in god ..

It is possible to feel a presence for the god 😉

best

silver heart

Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Fine. I will rephrase it...I doubt someone can truly hate someone they do not know.....

But then again, I could be wrong. A lot of people who don't truly know me hate me for whatever reason. I'm sure the same could be said for you.

I can think of a few... Not you I hope though.

Originally posted by Impediment
I don't believe in God, so I don't care. Just another mythological deity.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
God loves me huh . . .

what if (hypothetically) I really really hated god?

God still loves you Symmetric Chaos (in spite of your hypothetical or actual--hate for Him. God is not moved by your hatred. However, God is moved by His steadfast, unwavering, unchanging love for all nations (all people). It is this unconditional love that God extends to YOU and everyone else. God the Father loves you (and everyone besides you, including the whole world) that He gave His only begotten Son (His dear Son Jesus the Christ), that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Any person regardless of their race, nationality, socio-economic status, color, background, educational level, or social status has equal opportunity to FREELY receive God's love. Jesus Christ (the Lamb of God) is the physical expression of God's love. Just like an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, to be sacrificed on behalf of the people in order to atone for their sins with its shed blood, Jesus Christ offered Himself as the ultimate Sacrifice for the sins of us all. That is why Jesus is called the "Lamb of God." In the Old Testament of the Bible God commanded the priest to take a lamb of the first year, without spot or blemish and sacrifice. The priest confessed all of the sins of the people over this lamb (which was the scapegoat), then he sacrificed it upon the altar. The innocent lamb's blood was carried into the holy of holies and sprinkled upon the mercy seat. The mercy seat rested on the ark of the covenant which represented God's throne/presence in Heaven. But the sprinkling of the blood on the mercy seat symbolized that forgiveness of sin is made possible only by the mercy of God (that is why it is impossible to be good enough to go to Heaven). Good deeds are evidence of salvation (i.e. righteousness or right-standing or right-status in the eyes of God), not the cause, basis, or source of it. So, once the blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat God could then atone or "cover over" the sins of the people. But that innocent lamb was a type, shadow, or prefigurement of the True Lamb Who was to come. The True Lamb of God Who willingly laid down His life for us all. Referring to His life Jesus said,

John 10:18
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

Jesus Christ willingly permitted His accusers to arrest Him, beat Him, spit on Him, scourge Him, and treat Him with contempt. Jesus voluntarily allowed others to mock Him, ridicule Him, strip Him naked, and nail Him to a cross after slicing His flesh (His arms, legs, back, face, and chest) into ribbons with a cat–o'–nine–tails. Jesus Christ willingly endured dreadfully, painful, agony on the cross as His weakened, hungered, badly beaten body was yet subjected to more trauma after being impaled by 1-2in diameter nails through His hands and feet. As the Lord lay there writhing in untold pain, the cross that was to be His altar to die on (just as that innocent lamb in the Old Testament), that same cross was raised abruptly so that it could fall into the hole that was meant to position it ninety degrees. This act subjected the Lord to even more pain as His ripped and exposed back grinded against the hard, coarse wood. Every breath brought about more pain for the Lord.

Why did Jesus go to the cross? Jesus spread His arms wide for all of us. This one act of selfless love is God's demonstration to us all just how much He loves and cares for us. We were still sinners while Christ hung suspended between heaven and earth on the cross. I don't know anyone that would go through what Christ went through for a good person let alone a sinner. Yet Jesus did it. In one instance while the people were mocking and cursing Jesus, and while the Roman soldiers were gambling for His clothes, Jesus prayed,

Luke 23:34
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots.

Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world (everybody). The wages of sin is death. Death spread to all people because all were sinners. Death is both physical and spiritual. Those who die physically (in their sins or while being a sinner) go to Hell (No person should ever go to Hell because it was originally prepared for the devil and his angels). But those who sins are washed in the Blood of Jesus (just like the sins of the people were covered over by the shed blood of the lamb), will go into God's Presence in Heaven. God no longer holds our sins against us thanks to Jesus Christ sacrificial death on our behalf. Jesus' shed blood pays for and washes away the sins of all people. But we must ask for it. Whoever calls on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation will receive forgiveness of sin and go to Heaven at death. If you or anyone out there would like to be born again or saved from your sins say the following prayer from your heart.

Lord Jesus, save me from my sins, I repent of my sins. I believe that God raised You from the dead.

Once you do this the angels in Heaven will record your salvation in the Lamb's Book of Life (which is simply a written record of everyone person who is saved and has confessed Jesus Christ as Lord.

God loves me too 😊

JIA, you have such a good heart. Many rewards will come your way one day. I can see your deep desire to share the Word with people.

May god bless you and hopefully you pass on the word of god. 🙂

You people would be shouting "God loves you" as you repeatedly stab an individaul to death.

Rhetoric means nothing.

Oh shut the **** up all of you.... (except Marcu)

Fatima, JIA, and Jacope ...all 3 of you are prejudice people with twisted views, who truly beleived that violence can be justified as long as its in the name of God.

Alliance is correct...you three are full of shit, with your opinions of "peace" which accompany nothing but judgement, hate, and violence.

F*ck off

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Why does God love us so much? Well, the Word of God--the Holy Bible--tells us that God is love. Love is a Person, His Name is Jesus Christ.

Originally posted by Demon_sniper
yeah! he loves us so much that we all go to hell
that's some tough love =3

2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

1 Timothy 2:3-4, “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
who desires all men [people] to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Based on the above Bible verses it is incorrect to conclude that God desires for any person to go to Hell. It IS NOT God's will for even one person to go to Hell. Re-read the above Bible verses for confirmation of this. God went out of His way to keep you, me, and everyone else out of Hell. God was very proactive about keeping us from going to Hell when we die.

John 3:16
[COLOR=blue] God so loved the world [you, me, and everyone else] that He gave His only begotten Son [Jesus] that whoever believes in Jesus should not perish [in Hell], but have everlasting life [in Heaven].
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Did you see that Demon_sniper? God so loved the world--not so hates the world--that He gave--not withheld--His only begotten Son--Jesus is God's dear Son and yet God gave Him up to die for the sins of the whole world. Jesus Christ willingly went to the cross to pay for the sins of the world in accordance with His Father's plan to keep us from going to Hell. Don't make the mistake ever again, as long as you live of believing the devil's lie that God wants you, me, or anyone else to go to Hell. This simply is not the truth. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father God except through Him.

Demon_sniper, believe it or not you have a choice about whether or not you go to Hell when you die. In order to go to Heaven your sins must be washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ. The Blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Once your sins have been washed away (no longer held against you by God) Demon_sniper you WILL be with Jesus in Heaven when you die or when He returns. It is that simple.

You do not have to go to Hell if you do not want to. But the unfortunate thing is that you (and anyone else who is not born again or saved from their sins [yet]) must be proactive. You cannot be passive about your sinful condition. I, too, was once passive about my sinful condition. Every person is born sinful and separated from God (this is our default condition). We must make a decision while we are still alive (before we die) to get out of this default, sin state that we are born with. This is why we must be born again. Jesus told a man named Nicodemus,

John 3:1-11
1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11

Jesus is talking about being born again "spiritually" because our spirits (respectively) are what is separated from God. Once we get born again, we become saved and alive to God. We become heirs of eternal life. Our names will be recorded in the Lamb's (Jesus'😉 Book of Life because the moment we are born again we pass from eternal death and separation from God into eternal life and relationship (not religion) with God. If we do nothing (meaning if we do not receive the gift of salvation that is available to all people through Jesus Christ) then we must be separated from God forever. God is holy and cannot have a sinner in His presence. As much as God loves us all, He is of purer eyes than to behold sin (He cannot allow sin into His holy presence). That is why He sent His only begotten Son Jesus to die on the cross for your sins, my sins, and the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is accept Christ's holy Sacrifice (Christ's holy, sinless, righteous, blood was shed to save us from our sins) and we will become righteous and holy to stand in God's presence. God credits the righteousness and holiness of His Son Jesus Christ to us. God sees us as being equally righteous as Christ because it is Christ's righteousness--not our own--that gets us into Heaven. Salvation from sin comes to us all by faith in Jesus Christ.

So to sum up the most important points Demon_sniper:
1. You do not have to go to Hell.
2. Jesus went to Hell for you.
3. But your sins have separated you from God.
4. For this reason you must be born again.
5. You are born a sinner.
6. You must not sit by idly and do nothing about you sinful condition/state.
7. You must be proactive.
8. If you do not want to go to Hell then simply ask Jesus Christ (the Savior) to forgive you of all of your sins and to save you from Hell. Tell Jesus that you are sorry for your sins. Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and that you believe that God raised Him (Jesus) from the dead, and YOU WILL BE SAVED. It is this simple Demon_sniper (and ANYONE else who is reading this right now) to go to Heaven.
9. But don't delay. Don't wait to receive God's free gift of salvation from sin and eternal life (which is only possible and available through Jesus Christ) because if you die before receiving Christ into your heart, you will lift up your eyes in Hell. Now is the day of salvation. Choose Christ now. Be proactive while you are still living, there is no second chance to get saved once you die. I trust that you will make the right decision.

This post is for ANYONE who wants to go to Heaven when they die. Choose Christ now.

Acts 4:12
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name [the Name of Jesus Christ] under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Romans 10:13
For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD [Jesus Christ] shall be saved.”

Romans 10:9-10
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Originally posted by Fatima
God loves me too 😊

Yes, He does Fatima. Will you come to Heaven to meet Him so that He can personally hug you and tell you face-to-face how much He loves you?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
2. Jesus went to Hell for you.

lol?
you belive jesus is god how can he put himself in hell?

or is his father so cruel he put his own son in hell because humans are commiting sin?