If my wife asked me if I loved her, and I replied that I did in a sense,
\nit would not be received well. I hear preachers speak of God loving all
\nmen in a sense, and sincerely offering mercy and forgiveness to all men
\n– that is quite simply not true! The apostles never told an unbelieving
\ncrowd that God loved them and offered them forgiveness. The unbeliever
\nneeds to know that he has offended a holy God by his sin and has become
\nGod\u2019s enemy by his hatred of God. But there is salvation in Christ! God
\nhas made a way to be just and yet justify the ungodly. If you trust
\nChrist alone as your only grounds of acceptance, you will be saved. To
\nsay there is a sense in which God loves is degrading to the character of
\nthe love of God. To say He offers forgiveness puts my forgiveness
\ndependent on my acceptance or rejection of the offer. That is salvation
\nby works! -Todd Nibert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If my wife asked me if I loved her, and I replied that I did in a sense, it would not be received well. I hear preachers speak of God loving all men in a sense, and sincerely offering mercy and forgiveness to all men – that is quite simply not true! The apostles never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-todd-nibert","category-gods-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}