God Is Love In The Bible

These Filipinas more or less have gained their knowledge of the Bible from people’s mouth and not from their powerful experiences of God or in reading their Bibles. It is absurd how they have interpreted the word of God to please their human pleasures. They believed that God could not afford to punish their sins because “God is love” and the “Sacrificial death of Jesus” stands as their assurance to go to heaven that they take sin likely.” To stop this ignorance, I explained to them that the passage “God is love” in the Bible is not meant to tolerate human sinfulness, but to end its destructive nature. “God is Love” is expressed well in John 3:16 that says: “For God so loved the world,[a] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

It clearly says that human beings have no capacity to save themselves from the power of sin in their lives (Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.”) However, because God loves His created beings very unconditionally that He offered and sacrificed His Son Jesus Christ to die a gruesome death on the cross, in behalf of humanity, to satisfy the requirements of sin. Jesus resurrection from the dead is the evidence of His victory over death. Therefore, the God of life offers eternal life to all who will accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. To make this more understandable and appealing to these Filipinas, I emphasized well that the eternal life that God is giving to them has no limitations. The gift of God’s eternal life does come in the package. This means that God will likewise provide them everything that they need to sufficiently live in the world because Jesus, who lives in them will be more than enough for all their needs. Therefore, I have challenged them to surrender their life, family, finances, happiness, sorrow, anxiousness and etc, to