@GreatestIam2 Said
Do you love Satan and demons as scriptures say you should?
Does love the sinner and hate the sin means that Satan and demons are to be loved?
The reason being that sin is a happy fault and necessary to our growth. Listen to this hymn please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXOvYn1OAL0&list=UUDXjzOeZRqLxhYaaEhWLb_A&index=9
Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
This statement has no qualifiers and since Christian tradition says that we are all sinners then it follows that all souls and sinners end in heaven. If God loves all sinners then this view must include Satan and demons and all of us as we are told that we as sinners have all been condemned and thus in need of salvation. It would also mean that non-believers, atheists and those of all the other faiths who are truly lost will also be saved by Jesus.
If that be the case then what this bishop says must be truth in that hell is a religious construct and a lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6I5VSZVqc
These logical inferences are quite clear and I would like to hear from any who can argue against our having to love Satan and demons and against the notion that hell does not exist.
Many say that God is love.
Scriptures also say that God hates sinners even in the womb as in the story of Jacob and Esau contradicting what was said above.
If God is love, how could he hate anyone including Satan and demons?
If sin cannot abide in God as tradition states and God hates, ---- and to hate is a sin, then does sin abide in God?
Unconditional love should mean that God loves all unconditionally including Satan and demons.
Is God’s love unconditional or does it come with conditions like us having to love, honor and obey him?
Is sin necessary for mental growth?
Regards
DL
Scripture says we should love what God loves and hate what he hates.
If He did not have love for them also He would not have insisted that they be given a fair chance to prove their ase.
There is a big difference however between loving nyone or thing and loving what that one or thign does. Therefore one ;oves Satan and the Demons but hates what they do, as God does.
The same goes for God's view of humans.
If He did not love us He would nto have arranged the opportunity for us to get out form under the twin influences of Satan and our own weak flesh.
Nor would He have agreed to His son coming to earth.
Nor would he have arranged for the resurrection to give those who have died ignorant to have a second chance.
Nor would He have arranged, again through His son, for the teaching and teaching work to show people how to save themselves.
Unlike some humans He is not full of self interest, nor is He particularly interested in the individual. His love for and interest in, mankind as a whole, and it is mankind as a whole He wants the best for.
Not full of self interest? Well what can any man do for Him apart from give Him peace of mind. And we can only do that if we cooperate in supporting what is best for all, not just usas individuals..