Tag: God’s love
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Has Allah Forgiven You?
Muslims and Christians both speak about the assurance of forgiveness.But they say opposite things. We see that very clearly in what their holy books claim about the assurance God gives us. The Qur’an (Surah 7:99):* أَفَأَمِنُوا۟ مَكْرَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ فَلَا يَأْمَنُ مَكْرَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَّا ٱلْقَوْمُ ٱلْخَـٰسِرُونَ ٩٩ Did they then feel secure against the plan…
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You Can’t Read God’s Mind
Featured image: AI generated (does not depict real people) Judge Mike Lynch, former Texas state district court judge described the harrowing personal experience of issuing the death penalty: In my first death penalty trial, in 1998, the defendant had sexually assaulted and brutally slashed and stabbed a woman who had befriended him. The jury found…
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Does God Feel Love or Wrath? (Part 3)
God so loved the world… (John 3:16) Yet, it sounds like the opposite: …the wrath of God remains on him. (John 3:36) In Part 1, we saw that John 3 creates a real tension: God loves the world—and yet his wrath remains. In Part 2, we saw that this isn’t a contradiction, because “love” and…
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Does God Feel Love or Wrath? (Part 2)
How on earth can it be that: God so loved the world… (John 3:16) And yet: …the wrath of God remains on him. (John 3:36) In part 1 we heard how people explain this tension away by denying one side or the other… or simply redefining what the Bible’s words mean. The problem comes when…
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Does God Feel Love or Wrath? (Part 1)
John chapter 3 sounds like a flat contradiction. Verse 16 says: For God so loved the world… But by verse 36 we hear: …the wrath of God remains on him. Something we say here at Manchester Lutheran Church is: “God is in a good mood with you!And you see that when you look at Jesus.” But…
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Does Allah Love the Wicked?
Muslims and Christians both speak about God—the one who created us.(Allah is simply the Arabic word for “God”.)But what they say about him is very different. We see that very clearly in what their holy books claim is God’s attitude to the wicked. The Qur’an (Surah 3:57):* وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ فَيُوَفِّيهِمْ أُجُورَهُمْ ۗ…
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The Futility Loop
You replay it. You try to fix it. You fail. You replay it again. Rumination is that cycle of trying to fix something in your mind that can’t be fixed by thinking. Most of the time, when something goes over and over in our heads like this, it’s not voluntary. And, it’s not healthy. You…
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I Did Everything Right—Why Am I Still Broke?
37% of kids in Manchester live in poverty. Recent data revealed that 9,589—that’s 1 in 61 people—in Manchester are homeless. Of that figure, 4,678 are children. In 2019, Manchester ranked 6 out of 326 local authorities in England, where 1 is the most deprived. My family and I moved onto a council estate right on…