Does God Love You?

billvon said:
Well, if you are certain your God loves you, but he's into tough love - and decides that killing your friends and family, and giving you cancer, will make you into a better person - then you might fear him acting on his love.
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Does that sound like love to you?
 
Bowser said:
My apologies, folks. I'm at present living with and providing care for a relative who is in her twilight years. There's a lot of fear there. She has religious affirmations hanging on the walls, says she believes in God, yet her fear is so intense that I want to take it away for her as if it were a curable cancer. If she believes God loves her, she has nothing to fear, which is the message I tried giving her, though I think she missed the point. She worries about her sins, but if she can forgive herself and others, how much greater is the forgiveness of a God? My point is, if you are loved by a God, love being God's armor, what is there to fear? Even death has no power over God's love. If you have faith in God's love, there is nothing to fear.
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You've said all you can really, don't start tying yourself into knots with word games. You be strong for her, show her your belief through your actions.

EDIT: Create love

For example. A smile probably does have a little bit of love in it.
 
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candy said:
God is about creation and love.
Religion is about using fear to control the faithful.
The problem is not the all loving and forgiving God; it is sanctimonious clerics who have historically promised redemption in exchange for confession and quite often cash.
Encourage her to embrace the concept of the all loving "I am that I am" that loved Moses even after he killed someone and ignore the fear mongering control freaks.
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So do you think God loves you?
 
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