DOES GOD LIKE US?

[Nancy]

I sure hope so ;)

Welcome to the site Walt.
When I started this thread, I was kind of in "that place" when, even though we KNOW He is ever present-we can "feel" far away at times, peaks and valleys. During that time an old erroneous thought was trying to enter my mind...self loathing. I was not having it, it is a lie from the pits of Hell and I know who I am in Christ, and lemme tell you- I'm so not who I used to be! Took a long time to get me to this point and, I am happy He let me live long enough TO answer the knock. :)
God Bless,
-nancy

 

[Truth]

I sure hope so ;)

Welcome to the Forum Walterbl.
Hope to hear from you, try to get to know more about you.

 

[Phoneman777]

Genesis 6:5-8 "It grieved God that He had made man"
Genesis 6:6 "And The LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart."

Genesis 6:8 "for I am grieved that I have made them.’ But Noah found favour in the eyes of the LORD.” <------ So, God saw his creation as still redeemable? ♥

I know God LOVES us but, are there certain Christians, though LOVING them He finds less "likable" than others? I myself see a part of His character as having "special" people such as Abraham, being called a "friend of God" from God's own lips! David-a man after God's own heart...and others. So, whatcha think :)
-nancy

Heard a preacher give an example of how we "grieve the Holy Spirit".


"A young man takes a liking to a young lady and when she accepts his offer to take her on a date Friday night, he can hardly wait. He shows up right on time to pick her up with a nice box of expensive chocolates and knocks on the door. When she opens it, he sees Johnny Lee sitting on the couch. She takes the sweets and apologizes for not remembering their date. She and Johnny Lee enjoy his chocolates while he goes home brokenhearted. A few days later, she apologizes again for being so thoughtless and offers to go with him on a date the next Friday.

"Again, he gets excited and when Friday comes, he knocks on the door with a nice carton of good ice cream and when she opens the door, he sees Billy Bob sitting on the couch. Again, she apologizes for not remembering and takes the ice cream. She and Billy Bob will enjoy his ice cream while he goes home brokenhearted. A few days later, she apologizes again for being so thoughtless and offers to go with him on a date the next Friday.

"Once more, he gets his hopes up again and when Friday comes, he again shows up right on time with a nice bottle of imported grape juice and knocks on the door, but when she opens it he sees Bubba Ray is sitting on the couch.

"Now if that young man has a bit of sense, he'll leave that girl alone. That girl does not keep her word! That girl does not care about him!

"IF EVERY TIME THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AND IT OPENS ONLY TO FIND THE DEVIL SITTING ON THE COUCH, EVENTUALLY THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GIVE UP AND LEAVE YOU ALL ALONE! THAT SOUL DOES NOT LOVE ME! THAT SOUL DOES NOT KEEP HIS WORD!"

(It's better if you hear him preach it ;) than just read it)

 

[Nancy]

Heard a preacher give an example of how we "grieve the Holy Spirit".


"A young man takes a liking to a young lady and when she accepts his offer to take her on a date Friday night, he can hardly wait. He shows up right on time to pick her up with a nice box of expensive chocolates and knocks on the door. When she opens it, he sees Johnny Lee sitting on the couch. She takes the sweets and apologizes for not remembering their date. She and Johnny Lee enjoy his chocolates while he goes home brokenhearted. A few days later, she apologizes again for being so thoughtless and offers to go with him on a date the next Friday.

"Again, he gets excited and when Friday comes, he knocks on the door with a nice carton of good ice cream and when she opens the door, he sees Billy Bob sitting on the couch. Again, she apologizes for not remembering and takes the ice cream. She and Billy Bob will enjoy his ice cream while he goes home brokenhearted. A few days later, she apologizes again for being so thoughtless and offers to go with him on a date the next Friday.

"Once more, he gets his hopes up again and when Friday comes, he again shows up right on time with a nice bottle of imported grape juice and knocks on the door, but when she opens it he sees Bubba Ray is sitting on the couch.

"Now if that young man has a bit of sense, he'll leave that girl alone. That girl does not keep her word! That girl does not care about him!

"IF EVERY TIME THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AND IT OPENS ONLY TO FIND THE DEVIL SITTING ON THE COUCH, EVENTUALLY THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GIVE UP AND LEAVE YOU ALL ALONE! THAT SOUL DOES NOT LOVE ME! THAT SOUL DOES NOT KEEP HIS WORD!"

(It's better if you hear him preach it ;) than just read it)

Poor young man, not a lick of sense...ha! Good story. :)
Yes I see so many with "seared consciences". They would get to the point of being totally deaf to the Holy Spirit!

 

[bbyrd009]

Hmm, crickets :O

lol--i could go either way here

I believe Esau was also still in his mothers womb when God said that. Who can know Him...? I read Romans 9, not sure it is really applicable and I also think this thread is dead, lol. Thank you for responding though ♥

nice, yes, God does not hate Esau imo, and that is not even what is written i guess

 

[Nancy]

lol--i could go either way here

nice, yes, God does not hate Esau imo, and that is not even what is written i guess

@bbyrd009
"God does not hate Esau imo, and that is not even what is written"
That scripture has bothered me over the years...as well as the one where He Himself say's that He created evil. I tend to not want to look too closely sometimes, but I believe that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God..." and should not shun parts I do not like...His character is throughout the pages...like it or not I suppose.
How do you interpret these scriptures Mark?
-nancy ♥

 

[bbyrd009]

@bbyrd009
"God does not hate Esau imo, and that is not even what is written"
That scripture has bothered me over the years...as well as the one where He Himself say's that He created evil. I tend to not want to look too closely sometimes, but I believe that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God..." and should not shun parts I do not like...His character is throughout the pages...like it or not I suppose.
How do you interpret these scriptures Mark?
-nancy ♥

well, that God "had hated" Esau, just like It says. Now imo "hated" is a bad translation there, we are called to "hate your family" too, but a better understanding of what is really meant by "hated" is gained by the study along the way, i guess; it is usually understood that a comparison is being made, and we aren't supposed to be "hating" anyone per se. "God (Love) had hated Esau is a comparison statement iow, not a value statement; it goes with Jacob have I loved.

Esau (Edom) is a type for Adam, which also figures in i guess. Plus we can also see revealed that Edom is the one who inherited, the land at least, and Jacob is the one who left, returning later to supplicate Edom, not the other way around as might be expected, right, if Jacob inherited? Iow, briefly, Esau sells his birthright to Jacob, Israel dies and Jacob leaves, even though the inheritor is the one who is supposed to stay, and then Jacob returns to Esau, not the other way round. (Jacob = Heel Grabber, Supplanter). And there is no resolution here bc we are not done yet, or God is not or whatever, but another point is that the story is not resolved until later

Aren't Jacob and Esau brothers? But Jacob (Heel Grabber, Supplanter, even Deceiver) have I loved, while Esau (Edom, Adam) have I hated.

so then, a puzzle

 

[amadeus]

@Nancy @bbyrd009 @"ByGrace" @etc.

Very simply one way I have seen it expressed is that God loves Esau less as a result of Esau's actions or inactions. Time is always a problem with us in things like this, but time is no problem with God. He knows the beginning and the end and all that lies between for each of us and for Esau and for brother Jacob all of the time. Loving less equals in a sense, hatred. We don't really understand God, do we... at least not very well at all?

"As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Rom 9:13

"I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." Mal 1:2-3

So it is, perhaps, confusing to us if we do not understand what "good" is. Who understands what good is?

"And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Mark 10:18

"None "good" but One", and so it is and as John writes:

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John 3:2

If we in any part are really "good" [God's definition, not man's] is it not because of God in us and/or working in us? We are to be like Him and as we approach that likeness is it not the "good" [godly part] in us that is moving us closer to Him? [The new man is increasing while the old man is decreasing.]

God hates [loves him less] Esau, why? Because he went from bad to worse. What is it that God hates? The evil! [the moving away from Him.] Apparently in the end there was nothing else, nothing Good, left in the eyes of God... no more of God left [or too small a part and/or diminishing].

"He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Matt 13:11-12

Is this not what happened to Esau? Like every man in his beginning he had hope of coming to God and becoming like Him. But when he rejected his hope, the hope that he had was taken away... and there was finally no room for him to repent. That was taken away... or rather he cast it away or he moved away from it.

When there is only evil left then God who is love no longer responds. [Is curse a real response or is it what happens when there is no blessing?]. God does not respond to evil. Apparently this loss of any possible connection with God is what the scripture calls "hate". In other words for a God who is Love, no response at all would described as "hate". It was a disconnection. [Consider the difference between the relationship of Adam and Eve with God prior to eating the forbidden fruit and after they ate of it.]

What was the end of Esau?

"For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb 12:17 Apparently he had moved beyond the point of having any real hope. Never having been there perhaps we cannot understand that? Hmmm?

Do we know when a person has reached that place where God will no longer respond to him at all? "No place of repentance"[unforgiveable sin?] Usually not.

God might show us what is happening with another person, but unless He does specifically show us we should not give up hope and we should continue to pray for that person...

"And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." I Sam 16:1

So then consider the question of the OP: Does God like us? For man it seems certain there is a difference between love and like, but with God I really cannot see such a distinction although playing with words and scriptures we might find one. For me it seems that there is the end of "face to face" [Love toward Him completed] with God at the finish or the end with absolute and complete darkness [Hate toward Him] and complete disconnection. God never moved. We did and do. To move toward Him is Love, or toward Love, or toward Light, or toward Understanding, etc. To move away from Him is Hate, or toward Hate, or toward Darkness, or toward Confusion, etc.

God only effectively spoke once [described in scriptures using men's words to make it somewhat comprehensible to a person who sees hardly at all as many speeches] and it was all said:

"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11

God does not keep on speaking and answering. All of the speeches and/or answers have already been spoken for every question and every situation. When we speak to God we receive that which He has already spoken [the Word of God, be it a blessing or a curse]... The blessings and the curses, all of them, are already in place. We get them in response to what we do or do not do.

 

[bbyrd009]

God hates [loves him less] Esau, why? Because he went from bad to worse. What is it that God hates? The evil! [the moving away from Him.] Apparently in the end there was nothing else, nothing Good, left in the eyes of God... no more of God left [or too small a part and/or diminishing].

and we might note that this end does not even happen in the passage; it comes later, and must be found elsewhere. Iow at the end of the passage, Esau is doing fine and even appears to be living in Jacob's inheritance, right

What was the end of Esau?

"For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected

despite this iow. We read "he was rejected" here, but at the end of the passage Esau seems to be anything but rejected, in fact it is the (returning) Jacob who is offering supplications to Esau. hmm

 

[amadeus]

and we might note that this end does not even happen in the passage; it comes later, and must be found elsewhere. Iow at the end of the passage, Esau is doing fine and even appears to be living in Jacob's inheritance, right

Esau is used as an example for us, but we should hesitate with him or with anyone to render a final judgment of condemnation. People will use Adolf Hitler as an example of one definitely lost to God, but again who knew or knows his heart and his final place with God? What kind of a terrible life may the "good" thief on the cross have led prior to encountering Jesus? We do not know, but we know what Jesus said to him. With Hitler, we do not know that there was NOT such an encounter at the end of the time with Herr Hitler.

 

[bbyrd009]

9Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’
10I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan

might be pertinent to start asking wth Jacob even inherited lol

 

[zipzaddle]

Gen 6:6 And it repented [sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry] God that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved [worry, pain, hurt] him at his heart.

...and God sighed, because it hurt him he created human

Sighed is a very heartfelt emotion. Jesus called God "Father". A loving Parent.

When your children are "messing up" in the world it is very painful. God (our Parent) felt the same. He loves us whether we do good or bad. Love patiently endures, is selfless, is tranquil and is forgiving. God's character is proof He truly loves us.

Jesus on the cross said "forgive them for they do not know what they are doing". What greater love to lay your life down for your brothers and sisters. Jesus's life is proof a human can love as God loves.

 

[Nancy]

@Nancy @bbyrd009 @"ByGrace" @etc.

Very simply one way I have seen it expressed is that God loves Esau less as a result of Esau's actions or inactions. Time is always a problem with us in things like this, but time is no problem with God. He knows the beginning and the end and all that lies between for each of us and for Esau and for brother Jacob all of the time. Loving less equals in a sense, hatred. We don't really understand God, do we... at least not very well at all?

"As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Rom 9:13

"I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." Mal 1:2-3

So it is, perhaps, confusing to us if we do not understand what "good" is. Who understands what good is?

"And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Mark 10:18

"None "good" but One", and so it is and as John writes:

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John 3:2

If we in any part are really "good" [God's definition, not man's] is it not because of God in us and/or working in us? We are to be like Him and as we approach that likeness is it not the "good" [godly part] in us that is moving us closer to Him? [The new man is increasing while the old man is decreasing.]

God hates [loves him less] Esau, why? Because he went from bad to worse. What is it that God hates? The evil! [the moving away from Him.] Apparently in the end there was nothing else, nothing Good, left in the eyes of God... no more of God left [or too small a part and/or diminishing].

"He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Matt 13:11-12

Is this not what happened to Esau? Like every man in his beginning he had hope of coming to God and becoming like Him. But when he rejected his hope, the hope that he had was taken away... and there was finally no room for him to repent. That was taken away... or rather he cast it away or he moved away from it.

When there is only evil left then God who is love no longer responds. [Is curse a real response or is it what happens when there is no blessing?]. God does not respond to evil. Apparently this loss of any possible connection with God is what the scripture calls "hate". In other words for a God who is Love, no response at all would described as "hate". It was a disconnection. [Consider the difference between the relationship of Adam and Eve with God prior to eating the forbidden fruit and after they ate of it.]

What was the end of Esau?

"For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb 12:17 Apparently he had moved beyond the point of having any real hope. Never having been there perhaps we cannot understand that? Hmmm?

Do we know when a person has reached that place where God will no longer respond to him at all? "No place of repentance"[unforgiveable sin?] Usually not.

God might show us what is happening with another person, but unless He does specifically show us we should not give up hope and we should continue to pray for that person...

"And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." I Sam 16:1

So then consider the question of the OP: Does God like us? For man it seems certain there is a difference between love and like, but with God I really cannot see such a distinction although playing with words and scriptures we might find one. For me it seems that there is the end of "face to face" [Love toward Him completed] with God at the finish or the end with absolute and complete darkness [Hate toward Him] and complete disconnection. God never moved. We did and do. To move toward Him is Love, or toward Love, or toward Light, or toward Understanding, etc. To move away from Him is Hate, or toward Hate, or toward Darkness, or toward Confusion, etc.

God only effectively spoke once [described in scriptures using men's words to make it somewhat comprehensible to a person who sees hardly at all as many speeches] and it was all said:

"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11

God does not keep on speaking and answering. All of the speeches and/or answers have already been spoken for every question and every situation. When we speak to God we receive that which He has already spoken [the Word of God, be it a blessing or a curse]... The blessings and the curses, all of them, are already in place. We get them in response to what we do or do not do.

You win the prize! lol...very good answer and scripture usage.
Who CAN know Him and His ways. Just to know that He IS love, will be enough for me, I only care what He thinks of me and He tells me He loves me in many, many ways...and His timing!!! Wow.
God Bless!
-nancy

 

[Nancy]

well, that God "had hated" Esau, just like It says. Now imo "hated" is a bad translation there, we are called to "hate your family" too, but a better understanding of what is really meant by "hated" is gained by the study along the way, i guess; it is usually understood that a comparison is being made, and we aren't supposed to be "hating" anyone per se. "God (Love) had hated Esau is a comparison statement iow, not a value statement; it goes with Jacob have I loved.

Esau (Edom) is a type for Adam, which also figures in i guess. Plus we can also see revealed that Edom is the one who inherited, the land at least, and Jacob is the one who left, returning later to supplicate Edom, not the other way around as might be expected, right, if Jacob inherited? Iow, briefly, Esau sells his birthright to Jacob, Israel dies and Jacob leaves, even though the inheritor is the one who is supposed to stay, and then Jacob returns to Esau, not the other way round. (Jacob = Heel Grabber, Supplanter). And there is no resolution here bc we are not done yet, or God is not or whatever, but another point is that the story is not resolved until later

Aren't Jacob and Esau brothers? But Jacob (Heel Grabber, Supplanter, even Deceiver) have I loved, while Esau (Edom, Adam) have I hated.

so then, a puzzle

I agree, Mark-"bad translation". Also, I think about the fact that Jacob also took advantage of Esau's hunger...so with my human mind I see both as being in the wrong but...I cannot see their hearts, so good thing God can! :)

 

[Helen]

@Nancy @bbyrd009 @"ByGrace" @etc.

Very simply one way I have seen it expressed is that God loves Esau less as a result of Esau's actions or inactions. Time is always a problem with us in things like this, but time is no problem with God. He knows the beginning and the end and all that lies between for each of us and for Esau and for brother Jacob all of the time. Loving less equals in a sense, hatred. We don't really understand God, do we... at least not very well at all?

"As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Rom 9:13

"I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." Mal 1:2-3

So it is, perhaps, confusing to us if we do not understand what "good" is. Who understands what good is?

"And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Mark 10:18

"None "good" but One", and so it is and as John writes:

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John 3:2

If we in any part are really "good" [God's definition, not man's] is it not because of God in us and/or working in us? We are to be like Him and as we approach that likeness is it not the "good" [godly part] in us that is moving us closer to Him? [The new man is increasing while the old man is decreasing.]

God hates [loves him less] Esau, why? Because he went from bad to worse. What is it that God hates? The evil! [the moving away from Him.] Apparently in the end there was nothing else, nothing Good, left in the eyes of God... no more of God left [or too small a part and/or diminishing].

"He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Matt 13:11-12

Is this not what happened to Esau? Like every man in his beginning he had hope of coming to God and becoming like Him. But when he rejected his hope, the hope that he had was taken away... and there was finally no room for him to repent. That was taken away... or rather he cast it away or he moved away from it.

When there is only evil left then God who is love no longer responds. [Is curse a real response or is it what happens when there is no blessing?]. God does not respond to evil. Apparently this loss of any possible connection with God is what the scripture calls "hate". In other words for a God who is Love, no response at all would described as "hate". It was a disconnection. [Consider the difference between the relationship of Adam and Eve with God prior to eating the forbidden fruit and after they ate of it.]

What was the end of Esau?

"For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb 12:17 Apparently he had moved beyond the point of having any real hope. Never having been there perhaps we cannot understand that? Hmmm?

Do we know when a person has reached that place where God will no longer respond to him at all? "No place of repentance"[unforgiveable sin?] Usually not.

God might show us what is happening with another person, but unless He does specifically show us we should not give up hope and we should continue to pray for that person...

"And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." I Sam 16:1

So then consider the question of the OP: Does God like us? For man it seems certain there is a difference between love and like, but with God I really cannot see such a distinction although playing with words and scriptures we might find one. For me it seems that there is the end of "face to face" [Love toward Him completed] with God at the finish or the end with absolute and complete darkness [Hate toward Him] and complete disconnection. God never moved. We did and do. To move toward Him is Love, or toward Love, or toward Light, or toward Understanding, etc. To move away from Him is Hate, or toward Hate, or toward Darkness, or toward Confusion, etc.

God only effectively spoke once [described in scriptures using men's words to make it somewhat comprehensible to a person who sees hardly at all as many speeches] and it was all said:

"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11

God does not keep on speaking and answering. All of the speeches and/or answers have already been spoken for every question and every situation. When we speak to God we receive that which He has already spoken [the Word of God, be it a blessing or a curse]... The blessings and the curses, all of them, are already in place. We get them in response to what we do or do not do.

That is a very good post John.
I cannot do it justice by responding as I would like to do ...my brain is not functioning on all systems again...I've got that unbalanced , dizzy thing going on again..I see the doc in the morning ( sorry @bbyrd009 I know what you think of doctors. But at this age 'needs must' ...now, if you lived here.....)

Great post....Mark's was too...

There is more hope than many believe....

 

[Helen]

Gen 6:6 And it repented [sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry] God that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved [worry, pain, hurt] him at his heart.

...and God sighed, because it hurt him he created human

Sighed is a very heartfelt emotion. Jesus called God "Father". A loving Parent.

When your children are "messing up" in the world it is very painful. God (our Parent) felt the same. He loves us whether we do good or bad. Love patiently endures, is selfless, is tranquil and is forgiving. God's character is proof He truly loves us.

Jesus on the cross said "forgive them for they do not know what they are doing". What greater love to lay your life down for your brothers and sisters. Jesus's life is proof a human can love as God loves.

Good to see you...

 

[Windmill Charge]

Genesis 6:5-8 "It grieved God that He had made man"
Genesis 6:6 "And The LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart."

Genesis 6:8 "for I am grieved that I have made them.’ But Noah found favour in the eyes of the LORD.” <------ So, God saw his creation as still redeemable? ♥

I know God LOVES us but, are there certain Christians, though LOVING them He finds less "likable" than others? I myself see a part of His character as having "special" people such as Abraham, being called a "friend of God" from God's own lips! David-a man after God's own heart...and others. So, whatcha think :)
-nancy

There is a difference between Loving and Liking. As you rightly say, many of us Christians are not very likkeably. That does not mean that we can ignore them, we Have to Love them.

As to does God love us Rev 1v 5, To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,
It is not a past love but a current active love.

 

[Dcopymope]

There is a difference between Loving and Liking. As you rightly say, many of us Christians are not very likkeably. That does not mean that we can ignore them, we Have to Love them.

As to does God love us Rev 1v 5, To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,
It is not a past love but a current active love.

:cool: Oh I find it very easy to ignore some "Christians" I don't care for at all. If they dropped freaking dead tomorrow, I wouldn't miss a beat.

 

[Stranger]

9Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’
10I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan

might be pertinent to start asking wth Jacob even inherited lol

Jacob inherited the blessing of the Abrahamic Covenant. See (Gen. 12:1-2) (27:28-29) (28:3-4) (28:13-15) And this covenant every believer is brought into.

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Oh I find it very easy to ignore some "Christians" I don't care for at all. If they dropped freaking dead tomorrow I wouldn't miss a beat.

The point is how do you show that you 'Love' them.

Would you stop if you saw there car had broken down?
Would you pray for them, that is practical prayers for their real benefit?