God's Unconditional Love

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Absolute love is the type of love that God requires us to have for one another. He demonstrated His unconditional love for us. But God also has boundaries that He will not allow us to cross without penalty.
These boundaries are defined in the Bible—most famously in Exodus 20:1-17.
He uses the commandments to help us to see where we fail to achieve His standard.
I’ve heard people accuse God of being unloving. “Well, if there is a God why is there starvation and child abuse and all these natural disasters?” If God is love, why do bad things happen to people?
God has been wrongly judged by human standards.
He gave mankind dominion over the earth. Men have a free will and they often use their free will to inflict pain on others. Be assured God sees it all, and though things may not seem fair now, it will all be fair when judgement comes.
God is love, and yet people do go to hell. People choose hell by refusing to choose God. Their choices do not reflect on God’s character. Their choices reflect flaws in themselves. God has done everything He can to warn people that their rebellion will result in an eternity of torment. There are warnings throughout the Bible of the consequences of disobedience to God’s Word.
Isaiah 1:18-20 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
The warnings are there to help us to see. An unloving God would not warn and say, well they made their bed, let them lie in it. An unloving God would love his people conditionally and not have mercy and grace available!

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