Originally Posted by DBT
Love is described as being unconditional/God is Love, John 3:16 is conditional. Salvation is conditional. We have a contradiction.




Again, you are totally wrong.

Where in the Bible is “love” defined as “unconditional.”

God’s love is displayed from Genesis to Revelation.... So is His judgment on sin......God’s love is astoundingly complete, but there are always consequences for sin. So how does God reconcile His love for us with His total rejection of sin?

There is no contradiction at all, but you don’t see it.

God cannot allow sin into heaven, but He loves us.... even though we are sinners..... God set the stage in the Old Testament with the blood of an innocent lamb as a temporary sin covering. He sent His Son, the perfect Lamb to be an eternal sacrifice so the sinners that He loves can be accepted into His presence.... “covered by the blood of the perfect Lamb.... forgiven of our sin by the grace of God.

Yes, I know you don’t like it. But know that you do not have an understanding of it. As they said in the old days, “He is talking through his hat.”



More from John 3....”This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds were evil.”

“Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”


The tax collector said: “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Jesus said he went home “justified.”