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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
[Re: JAK]
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R:I still think God loves each of His creatures in a different way. You agapao an enemy, but you can only fileo a friend.
J:This begs the question: Does God agapao me, or fileo me? This is an interesting question. Can God only love someone with fileo who is His friend?
Those who wait for the Bridegroom's coming are to say to the people, "Behold your God." The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love.
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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05/07/11 01:12 AM
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This begs the question: Does God agapao me, or fileo me? Both, I believe.
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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"All that is Gold does not Glitter, Not all who Wander are Lost." (J.R.R.T.)
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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Phileo has to do with the love of a family. Philadelphia, for example, the city of brotherly love, has its roots from "phileo".
So if we are members of the family of God, sons of God (and brothers/sisters of Christ), how could God not love us with phileo?
Those who wait for the Bridegroom's coming are to say to the people, "Behold your God." The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love.
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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charity [agape] "never fails" (1Cor 13:8).
A structure will fail if it bears too much burden, if it wears out, or if it is attacked. But not so with the love of God. That love never fails, regardless of external provocation.
God's love has not 'failed', not even toward the most personal of His enemies.
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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10/10/11 09:21 PM
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God's love has never failed for God is love.
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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Matthew 5:45
(45) That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Romans 6:16
(16) Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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That's a good one, Peter. I think this is a way that a heathen could learn of God's character from nature, a way that Psalm 19 occurs ("There is no place where His voice is not heard," to paraphrase).
Those who wait for the Bridegroom's coming are to say to the people, "Behold your God." The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love.
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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01/28/12 05:20 PM
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God loves us all.
Though billions of rebels were to issue from Adam's loins, the Father and Son made a pact from the foundation of the earth.
Christ would come to our planet to save the race, should Adam sin.
God so loved the world that He sent His Only Begotten Son.
That we might not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Re: Does God love those who are faithful to Him more than those who are not?
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01/28/12 06:10 PM
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God showers His goodness upon the just & the unjust, for His goodness leads us to repentance. (Romans 2:4)
Repentance is required - a revocation of our former service to Satan (self, selfishness, the world) and our conversion (change) to the service of God and Christ. Such testimony will freely spring from the heart.
God will fully support and endorse His obedient subjects.
God will not strengthen the hands of those in rebellion, though He tempers Satan's control over the rebel, that He (Jehovah) may be glorified, as with the Pharaoh of Exodus.
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