The Omnibenevolence And Justice Of God Flashcards
The Christian understanding of God holds unequivocally that God’s nature’s love. God’s love’s not caused by any special worth in its object. God’s love, like his existence, has no cause, is part of the nature of God. Love as an attribute of God’s connected to ideas about God’s goodness and righteousness. The goodness of God described in the ? is demonstrated as love for the people.
Bible.
The God of the Bible’s moved by the way people act, especially by the way they treat those who are weak or in poverty. God’s love’s compared with the love of a human ?
Parent.
“I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely” (? 7:13).
Hosea.
“Because your love is better than life, my lips will praise you” (? 63:3).
Psalm.
In the ? ? there’s a strong theme of the love that the people should’ve for God and for each other as a result of loving God.
Old Testament.
“If you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession” (? 19:4-6). The love of God can’t be separated from righteousness. It’s not sentimental love, and it goes with a demand that the people should keep the ? The idea of an omnibenvolent God’s linked with a God of justice and of judgement.
Exodus.
Commandments.
God’s love’s expressed through judgement and forgiveness; his punishment of sin’s because of his ?
Love.
Jewish post-? theologians claimed that the Jews were singled out for God’s punishment during the 20th Century press Ely because they’re his chosen people.
Holocaust.
In the New Testament, the word used for Christian love’s “?” showing love through action rather than love as simply a feeling or emotion.
Agape.
“Whoever doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God’s love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him” (1 ? 4:7-9).
John.
The theme of God’s love’s strongly linked with concepts of salvation, reconciliation and ?
Redemption.
“Love is patient, love is kind…love never fails” (1 ? 13:1-8).
Corinthians.
The existence of evil and suffering in the world appear to some people (such as ? ? and ? ?) to contradict the idea that there’s an all-loving, all-powerful God.
David Hume.
J.S. Mill.
? argued that we need to remember that when we speak of the love of God, we’re using analogy. We have to bear in mind that God’s infinitely greater than us and that we can only understand a tiny proportion of divine love.
Aquinas.
For many Christians, the key’s that God doesn’t leave us to suffer from our own. Christians believe that in Christ, God came to Earth in human form and suffered with us. They believe that God’s with us in our pain, even if we don’t understand the reasons for ?
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