“Understanding the Trinity is more important than many Christians realize. Why does it matter that He is triune? It matters because as three in one, our God is first and foremost relational. In the eternal realm, the Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed and forever will exist in a circle of intimate love.”
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
“You have been set in the place of a child who is loved and accepted by the Father just as surely as Jesus Himself knows that love and acceptance. Your palce is the triune circle dance is as safe and secure as the place of Jesus for the staggering reason that you are in Him.”
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
“When people form their opinion about God from what they hear from contemporary legalistic religion, it's no wonder they conclude that God is a cranky, old, bookkeeping, judgmental, demanding deity who is more interested in people's behavior than anything else. It would be easy to see how a god like that would be angry much of the time.
Sadly, people who hold that view of God impose it on the Bible and interpret the Bible to present a God like that. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm not saying that our God is a milquetoast, a mild-mannered god who can be managed. He's no kitten, that for sure.”
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
Sadly, people who hold that view of God impose it on the Bible and interpret the Bible to present a God like that. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm not saying that our God is a milquetoast, a mild-mannered god who can be managed. He's no kitten, that for sure.”
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
“If you have seen your God through the lens of legalistic religion, you most likely have believed that God was warning them [Adam and Eve] that He would punsih them if they ate from the tree. Nothing could be further from the heart or intent of God. He wouldn't kill them - sin would kill them. God wasn't warning them about what He would do but about what sin would do to them.”
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
“When we focus exclusively on the love of God, when we see love as the totality of His being, are we leaving out something? To say yes is to insult Divine Agape. Love is His fundamental makeup. Everything that can be known of Him must be seen through the lens of agape, or we end up presenting a god with multiple personality. Jesus proved that God is pure love by coming into the world.”
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
― Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You
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