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Post published by Mr. McMarty
Why does God love us so much?
That's one of the most difficult questions to answer if we think of it from God's perspective.
Here we are, his creatures who have been made in his image with the responsibility of mirroring and reflecting his glory and his righteousness to the whole world. We have disobeyed him countless times in every place and in every way. In so doing we have misrepresented his character to the whole universe. The Bible tells us that nature itself groans in travail, waiting for the day of the redemption of mankind, because nature suffers under our unrighteousness (Rom. 8:22).
When we think of how disobedient and hostile we've been toward God, we wonder what it is that would provoke him to love us so much. In Romans 5:7, when Paul is astonished by the love of Christ that was manifested in his death, he says, "Scarcely for a righteous man will one lay down his life, but imagine one who is perfect laying down his life for those who are not perfect and praying for those who are in the very act of killing him." That's the kind of love that transcends anything we have been able to experience in this world. I guess the only thing I can conclude is that it is the nature of God to be loving. This is part of his internal and eternal character.
Tough Questions with RC Sproul is excerpted from Now, That’s a Good Question! Copyright © 1996 by R. C. Sproul. All rights reserved.
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frogs2345
It didn't really answer the question. Ultimately, God loves us because he chose to love us. He is God, eternal, living, and un-needing. He did not need us. He wanted us. He wanted something other than himself to give His love back. God is not passionate about us, to out it as CS Lewis would, because that would imply there is a lesser love from God. He is love. He cannot love less than full, unbridled, unabashed care and intimacy bordering on insanity. He died to fulfill His own rules and law and his nature, to fix a mistake we made. Nobody can understand his love, but He.
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Mr. McMarty
I like to think that our purpose in God's divine plan is for the church to be the bride of Christ. We are the reward so to speak to his son.
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frogs2345
We are the reward of His good labor. He saw the agony of the cross as nothing compared to the joy set before Him with His bride joining Him for eternity. His time on Earth was only a foretaste of the glory to come before us. He got to peek at the beauty of His bride before he left to go prepare a place for her in His sanctuary. He saw good in us. He saw that he could reconcile us through unimaginable means. It would be like the president dying to save a beggar on the street. Scandalous, as my pastor calls it.
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