Why some people have such a harsh understanding of God

[jennifer_bloom]

My friend told me the one who lives without love would be judged without love when they die.

The way I understand that is the one who lives without sympathy for others, will be judged without sympathy by God, so the cruelty God shows you is related to the cruelty you show others, for example: If somebody insults you, what is your reaction? Is it that they deserve to be disinvited to your best friends birthday party or is it that they deserve to be shot or severely beaten?

What would you do to your enemies if you were an emperor with infinite power? Would you force them to eat hot peppers for 2 minutes or would you jail them for 50 years? The sympathy you show others, is the sympathy God will show you and the cruelty you show others is the cruelty God will show you. (W you stumble and fall to fail to live up to the standard.) So, if you plan on being hateful to somebody for something they cannot control (I.e., Race, bone structure, age…), be prepared for damnation when God judges you for something you have no control over, such as your inability to live a perfect life or do everything without mistakes etc…

I know a lot of people who have easy lives and yet still believe God is loving, they forgave the failures of others, so God forgave their failures but of course a little relaxation is possible but nobody can be totally lazy and still have a relationship with God, I’m referring to partially lazy people and not totally lazy people when I use the word “lazy.” Etc…

[Jlegacy]

Even the Lord's prayer says it all. All the prayer would be useless if we don't forgive those who hurt us. And God only forgives us in the same measure we forgive others. Also, even after God has shown mercy, if we go about being wicked to others, God can withdraw the previous mercy.

God doesn't joke with merciful people.

[Jlegacy]

Thanks for the MHO❤️

[alance99]

Nice Mytake

[bodiesands]

We have been forgiven, and yet we know our faults, and the things we've done - deep, dark, and terrible.

If such faults have been forgiven us, then we must pass on that forgiveness.

The beam in our eye is ginormous, and the mote we see in the other's eye is ridiculously small by comparison.

To such a degree that, as it says in Matthew 7:5 - we cannot even see clearly to take out their mote until we take out our own beam.

And if we can't see clearly, then we don't even know if that mote we see in them is even there at all.

[Highcountry]

It takes a long time to learn just how much God loves us. We see the evil, pain and the cruelty in the world then question God. I have crawled through hell naked on broken glass. Been through divorce, drug addiction, rejection, homelessness, hunger and pain. But God found me and saved me through Jesus Christ. I have no doubts of him. I don’t know why He is so good to me?

[Rachelspiks]

You're basically saying that God's love and acceptance is conditional, that you will be accepted by God only if you do this and that. If that's a relationship, then it's a manipulative one, one not worth being in.

[Highcountry]

That may be the teaching of religion, but the New Testament teaches it differently. In it God’s love and acceptance is a gift that you cannot earn. It is through faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin. I am not religious nor do I attend a church. Ask God for the truth. You don’t have to take any bodies word for it.

[jgibsonian1986]

Deception has always been the metagame of the adversary

[SneakiBreeki]

"What would you do to your enemies if you were an emperor with infinite power? Would you force them to eat hot peppers for 2 minutes or would you jail them for 50 years?"

Put em' up in a line and let that M60 go BRRRRRRT SKRAA SKRAAA.

[karaspara]

Because they don't understand doubting Thomas

[collie22]

many are deceived