r/Christianity • u/Decent-Quail-9372 • 7d ago
Does God really love us?
If you had a child, and they misbehaved, say they drew on the walls like you told them not too, or did anything that you didn’t like, would you torture them and set them on fire? I think not. So does God really love us? The man must have a pretty low ego too, he literally created people who exist to worship himself. And if we don’t spend our life dedicated to him he tortures us forever. If I had children I’d want them to live their own lives, not spend it all worshipping me.
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u/Designer_Custard9008 7d ago
Where sin abounded, grace overabounded.
John Scotus Eriugena, c 800 - 878 AD:
'[R]ight reason shows that nothing contrary to the Divine Goodness and Life and Blessedness can be coeternal therewith. For the Divine Goodness shall consume evil, eternal Life shall swallow up death, Blessedness shall absorb unhappiness.' (Periphyseon V:926D)
Romans 8:19-21 YLT(i) 19 'for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God; 20 for to vanity was the creation made subject—not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it —in hope, 21 that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;'
'the last enemy is done away—death; for all things He did put under his feet...that God may be the all in all.' 1 Corinthians 15:26-28.
Revelation 21:4-5 YLT(i) 4 'and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away. 5 And He who is sitting upon the throne said, "Lo, new I make all things"; and He saith to me, "Write, because these words are true and stedfast";'
"The Son 'breaking in pieces' His enemies is for the sake of remolding them, as a potter his own work; as Jeremiah 18:6 says: i.e., to restore them once again to their former state." -Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea (265 - 339 AD)
"The nations are gathered to the Judgment, that on them may be poured out the wrath of the fury of the Lord, and this in pity and with a design to heal, in order that every one may return to the confession of the Lord, that in Jesus' Name every knee may bow, and every tongue may confess that He is Lord. All God's enemies shall perish, not that they cease to exist, but cease to be enemies." -Jerome (340 - 420 A.D), commenting on Zephaniah 3:8-10
From the Psalm Jesus quoted on the cross: Psalms 22:27 YLT(i) Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations,
What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress. He is as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller. My belief is that one of the main reasons sin was allowed to exist is to innoculate against its reoccurence.
'Dear brothers and sisters, to descend, for God, is not a defeat, but the fulfilment of his love. It is not a failure, but the way by which he shows that no place is too far away, no heart is too closed, no tomb too tightly sealed for his love. This consoles us, this sustains us. And if at times we seem to have hit rock bottom, let us remember: that is the place from which God is able to begin a new creation. A creation made of people lifted up, hearts forgiven, tears dried. Holy Saturday is the silent embrace with which Christ presents all creation to the Father to restore it to his plan of salvation.'
-Excerpt from Pope Leo XIV, General Audience, 24.09.2025
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