GOD IS LOVE!
Psalms 102:8
The Lord is compassionate and merciful,
Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
Encouraging Words
In the early days of the modern church, what has become known as the Catholic and the Protestant branches of the tree of Christianity, there was a significant change in the direction of the theology of the original church. The teachings of Augustine were embraced and the concept of a judicial God became the core to the doctrine that so many people are familiar with today. This doctrine defines God as being an angry and judgmental God. Following this path of logic and the judicial way of thinking, then the only thing that God could do was substitute His Son for our sins, otherwise He could not save us. Someone had to pay the price to avoid His anger. Now, I am very far from being a theologian or an expert in any of this, but I have learnt enough from my studies of the early church and from the practices of Eastern Orthodoxy, which the Western church split away from, that our early church fathers believed and taught that our God is a loving God, a merciful God and that Jesus' incarnation and subsequent death was to defeat the hold that death had on His creation. God is love. God does everything He does, in love. And no matter what I do, He never stops loving me. Thank you, God! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
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