Christians tell us God is love, and love has
always been a part of God from the beginning. They claim, God cannot be love or show love
unless there was someone with him to receive this love. Therefore, they conclude,
Jesus was that person who was with God from beginning and that’s how he was
able to show us and give love, you cannot show or give love if your alone? God cannot be love if he was alone, his son
was with him, therefore God was able to share his love.
This is a very bad argument from the
Christian side, this claim can easily be dismantled from the very bible itself, as we shall see God willing. God does not need someone with him to show us he was able to develop love. The nature of
love was always with God before creation. Without anyone being side by side with God, He still
was loving and kind. If God needed
his son to develop love so that he can show it towards his creation, what about
hate? From where did hate develop?
Are you saying in the beginning, God was love
without an ounce of hate within himself, and all of a sudden after the creation of
man, hatred popped up in God?
God was unaware of what hatred was, and it
took thousands of years for God to realise he also had the opposite to love, something called hate? God did not know what hate was or did he?
If you say he knew hate, then you must admit
he was hateful from beginning as the opposite to love is hate. You say he
wasn't aware of hate from the beginning and hate was developed much later after
the creation of man, then your God is not all knowing and omnipotent.
A good example of proving that the God of the
Bible is not love can be summarised from the passage below.
A Parable of damnation
4 Abide in me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine,
neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are
the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much
fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in
me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are
gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. (John 15:4-6)
In other words, if you don't accept Jesus as
your lord and saviour then you'll be thrown in fire! So where is the love?
"If anyone does not abide in me he is
thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown
into the fire, and burned."
This damnation would have been decided by God
before sending this "Son" on earth, which would mean God had already
planned to throw people in the fire who rejected his "Son"
Jews claim the "Torah" has
always been with God before the creation of the earth and man
the gift of the Torah, was only the revelation of a law which had existed since before man had been created; (Akeidat
Yitzchak Gate 46:1:7)
Torah which pre-existed (קדמה)
the world. (Commentary Rashi on
Deuteronomy Chapter 2:26:1)
If the
Torah existed before creation as Jews claim, then the very same Torah talks
about hatred and evil towards men.
Christians must tell us how this hatred and evil developed in God if he
only has his "Son" with him?
Note Satan is out of the question as the creation has not started
yet.
If God was so loving and knew everything before time, then he surely
knew he would hate Esau.
"but Esau I have hated" (Malachi 1:3)
So where did this hate come from? Who
prompted God to hate Esau if he was "all loving" from the beginning? Bear in mind this
hatred for Esau was predestined by God before the creation of man, since the
Torah was always with God. The question is, if Jesus was the only figure with
God before the creation and God already decided to hate Esau, who caused this
hatred in God? The Christian understanding is God is love because Jesus his son
was with him before the creation. So, who else was with God for him to hate
Esau?
This hatred is not exclusive for Esau. The
bible is filled with God hating one thing or another. We can conclude the God
of the Bible is not loving after all.
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