Here read (KJV) Proverbs 10:12 I Peter 4:8 I Corinthians 13:8 Romans 13:8-10 Romans 7:13
The law is rigid, hard and inflexible. As such, the law cannot be made to apply to every situation in life. The purpose of the law is to show the guilty just how guilty they are. In other words, where the conscience may be vague, the law is direct and clear. Those who violate the law God condemns to death because He is determined to cleanse His universe of all of the filthiness of sin.
On the other hand, love is completely fluid and flexible and can be made to apply to every situation in life. For this reason, situations exist in life where love trumps a strict application of the law. Romans 13:8-10 teaches that love has already fulfilled the law. One of the meanings of fulfill is "to complete." If one could love God and one's neighbor with a perfect love, then one would have no need for rigid laws. One would automatically do whatever the law requires and even more. The problem is that all humans are sinners, and therefore, cannot love perfectly. The law teaches humans that they are sinners. God's love frees humans from sin, and therefore, from any need for law.
Even human law recognizes that when a person motivated by love violates the law, then that person is usually given a lighter sentence than one motivated by greed or hate or some other negative motivation.
That which humans cannot do because of original sin, God who is Love, can do perfectly. God created all things. This means God created even negative elements such as "hatred" and "jealousy," but these elements are positive as God uses them. As used by humans, "hatred" is almost always cruel and sinful. But when God uses "hatred" He is wholly motivated by love, and therefore, He uses it in an absolutely perfect manner. Hebrews 1:9 teaches that God loves righteousness and hates iniquity. God hates iniquity because it destroys people, but He loves the righteousness of His Son because He saves people from their sins. Song of Solomon 8:6 teaches that, for humans, "jealousy is as cruel as the grave." But Exodus 20:5 relates that "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God," and Exodus 34:14 reveals that one of God's names is "Jealous." God's use of jealousy demonstrates His fierce determination to protect His people from all of the destructive effects of sin and evil.
Lies were not created by God. They were not created, but they were invented, by Satan. However, lies always comprise false combinations of true elements that were created by God. For instance, in Genesis 3:4 when the serpent told Eve: "Ye shall not surely die," he lied. Yet, every element of his lie is a true and useful element that was created by God. "Ye" means Eve was a real person created by God. "Shall" is a true element which means: "an act of the will." "Not" is a real idea of nothing which means in this case: "The real considered as a negative." "Surely" is a true element which means: "for certain." "Die" is a real element which means: "to separate the disobedient from God's presence." The effect of this invented false combination was that Eve was convinced that she could escape the death that results from disobedience. The result of her and Adam's disobedience proved useless and ineffective. On the very day they disobeyed, they died spiritually and God cast them out of His garden.
However, God knows how to use even lies in a wholly loving and creative way. God knows perfectly how to use Satan's own weapon against him. God demonstrated His ability to do this in I Kings 22 when He used a "lying spirit" in His efforts to protect His guileless servant Jehoshaphat from the evil machinations of Ahab. Titus 1:2 and Hebrews 6:18 do teach that God cannot lie, but both of these verses are about God's promises to His people. God cannot lie to His people, but God can use lies in a wholly loving way to protect His people.
The Bible records that in the Great Flood and in Sodom and Gomorrah, God destroyed huge numbers of people. After God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, He sometimes commanded the Israeli army to destroy whole cities with every man, woman and child. Atheists charge God with cruelty for doing this. Actually, God was merciful to humanity as a whole when He took these actions. The humans that God destroyed or had destroyed were themselves very cruel and wicked. They sacrificed their children to their gods, and did many other very cruel practices. These people were very much like the Nazis; wholly given over to evil.
God destroyed this wickedness for the same reason that one would pull the weeds out of one's garden. If a gardener does not weed his garden, the weeds will take over and his vegetables will be choked out. If God had not, from time to time, destroyed huge numbers of wicked people, then their progeny would have become so numerous that the light of God's future gospel would have been so dimmed that few humans would ever be saved. God was merciful in that He made a way for His future gospel to shine brighter in the world so that the maximum number of people would hear His gospel and get saved. God destroyed even the children of the wicked because they were their progeny, and would have carried on the wickedness of their parents. Even in modern times, whole nations have become devoted to evil as did Nazi Germany prior to WWII. Everyone knows the terrible price the free world had to pay to protect itself from the horrible darkness that they would have brought to the world had they won. God is merciful. He will do whatever is necessary to protect His people from the horrible darkness.
Here read John 3:16
This glorious gospel that saves mankind from sin and evil is nothing less than the death, burial and resurrection of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus took the sin and evil of every human that ever lived on Himself when He died on the cross. Jesus sacrificed Himself for them; taking their just punishment on Himself. His shed blood will wash away the sin of all who will believe in Him. God demonstrated His great love for the world in the crucifixion and resurrection of His Son. All who repent of their sins, and put their trust in Him, will be saved forever from the horrible darkness.
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