What does it mean when someone loves God?
What does it mean when someone loves God?
Love of God can mean either love for God or love by God. The Greek term theophilia means the love or favour of God, and theophilos means friend of God, originally in the sense of being loved by God or loved by the gods; but is today sometimes understood in the sense of showing love for God.
Why does God tell us to love?
He wants us to experience incredible, life-changing love, mercy, and compassion not only from him, but from those around us. And he wants us to show that love to others. The call to love is often difficult, but it’s also a reminder of how God loves us: relentlessly, completely, and without expectation of return.
Why was God so harsh in the Old Testament?
So I think there is an intention that the Old Testament look bleak, sin look horrible, God look just, and that there be much less mercy, proportionate to what you see in the three years of the ministry of Jesus. And that’s intentional. This is what God’s heart is to the world right now.
What does the Bible say about loving kindness?
Loving-kindness: Genesis 4:15 is one of the first examples of God’s loving-kindness to an individual who didn’t deserve it. Cain killed his brother, and the punishment for murder was death. God not only delayed that punishment, He put a mark on Cain to protect him from those seeking reprisal.
How does God deal with people in the New Testament?
God dealt with people primarily on a national level. In the New Testament, God deals with individuals and with local bodies of believers—churches. Revelation 2 and 3 give lists of the faults and fortes of several churches, and the book of 1 Corinthians is filled with Paul’s guidance of—and sometimes frustration with—the church in Corinth.
Why does God order so much violence in the Old Testament?
Included would be women and children, as well as the animals that they sacrificed to their gods, so “that they may teach not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices, and so to sin against the Lord your God” (Dt. 20:18; cf. Ex. 23:33).