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It is hell here because we choose badly. The freedom God gives us includes responsibility for our choices. Bad choices result in miserable consequences which includes hating others, hating ourselves, anxiety, depression, lack of security and fear....plus many more.

How do then reconcile John 3:16-17 'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Do you conclude that if...

ohhhh, has it offended you Johann?

..and so you interpret the Greatest Lover known to Man as one who drowns and burns people if they don't dance to his tune? Do you think there could be another way of understanding/ interpreting what you read? One that is consistent with the character of one who who is prepared to and dies for...

It is speaking in metaphors. Just as 'Israel' is a metaphor for God's people, not just the Jews, so Egypt and Assyria are metaphors for the Gentiles. Of these folds they will hear the Good Shepherd's voice and there will be one flock and one Shepherd. See John 10:16

....and so you live in fear of God....as you have stated in a previous post. Do great lovers want their beloved to be fearful of them?

Jack, you interpret certain sounds and call it English yet the sounds you interpret from the Bible sound more like one who finds glee in punishment than one who bends over backwards so that we bumbling fumbling humans can understand his forgiveness and acceptance.

God's justice is liberating the oppressed. It is not requiring payment .....as if God were petty like us. Grace...yes, Amazing Grace ....let it amaze and you and you will gladly sing his praises without even being prompted .... or resist it as did Judas. Resistance is the great sin aka unbelief.

do you want to make excuses?

That God is our source of life, the which Jesus gave both now and in eternity. He is the Creator and recreator. I think the awareness of the Sabbath was never absent from the leaders and linage of folk who were God connected even while the masses were traumatised by their various oppressions...

God is the greatest lover in the Multiverse. Love means being vulnerable and Jesus manifests this vulnerability. His wooing never ends....even to the point of death. He never says marry me or I'll blow your brains out ie, he never says take it or leave it. Are we able grasp the breathtaking...

It is for you to figure out f2f. Arriving at a conclusion which synchronises and clarifies truth from fiction is the desired outcome......may it be your objective!

Evidence in text of its observation is here nor there, it doesn't negate its origin, its purpose and the injunction to remember it.

Revelation 12:9 'And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, who deceives all the world.....' Here is one person showing you a single verse. :)

What is the basis for the unbeliever's condemnation? Their determined wilfulness in rejecting God's judgement. .....and what is God's judgement? is it not to exonerate the fallen race....not because they deserve it or earned it or are worthy in any form. They are justified by his Grace

Creation and recreation ?

If you understood good news you would refrain from running them into the ground. You would instead give them hope in their hopeless situation.

Oh Johann, flawed judgement of another's intentions is endemic......as is the need to tell others what to do.

Again you expand your assumptions by using the word 'everyone' ......and then cobbling it to judgement with the words 'allowing themselves to be deceived' In so doing you place yourself knowingly or unknowingly in a position of superiority

It is not our prerogative to call others by denigrating names because their ideas/ thoughts do not align with ours