fresh start

It is an argument that has been around for years: If God is so loving then why does He send people to hell?

Our persepective is completely off course.

We are too focused on how loving God is that we forget how just He really is. So we build a case against God and make ourselves believe that God is just too good and loving to send anyone to hell. We rule out His justice nonsense because it's more convenient that way. But it's impossible to remove one without the other. I invite you to look at Genesis.

God is fed up with His creation, so He flushes it down the toilet with a flood. That is God being just.

God, at the last minute, scoops down and saves Noah from the drain and uses him to start over. That is God being love.

Not long after, God irritably laughs at the people when they try and build a tower to Him and knocks them over and changes their languages. That is God being just.

The new nations are in serious need of the Rosetta Stone but are allowed by God to start over. That is God being love.

When God wipes the slate clean and gives us a frest start, we tend to think it's God just being love but in the end it's just God being....God.

-NW