God’s love, God is love, or a God of love are terms that I have heard many times in the news and or on media sources lately. These facts are real for me as a Christian. The times I have heard them used have not been by Christians. It is political pundits, tv-trebles, movie-missed-the-pointers, and leftist-that-have-leaned-to-far individuals that have been giving their jaded insights into God and love. The problem is not that they are sharing their views. The problem is that Christians have a hard time separating out the partial truths they are saying. The comments have fallen into two general groups: 1. The way God should be. 2. Christians not fulfilling THEIR idea of loving your neighbor.

In my opinion, much of this comes from the postmodern influence on our society. Postmodernists change your mind by changing the vocabulary of society. One example of this is how they changed the Biblical definition of marriage. This practice is a bastardization of Romans 4:17 where God calls things into being that were not there before. 

Our Father and Love

When I have heard these interviews, the first thing that stands out is the generic term god. (It is easy to get caught up in this mindset.) So, ask them to name the god they are talking about. Another push would be to ask if it is a capital G or a lower-case g god. As a Christian I have a Father God, Jesus is my Lord, and the Holy Spirit is our Helper. Ask them to say Jesus is Lord. Pray for guidance here because you need to be knowledgeable and comfortable in how you refer to God. Who knows, their god maybe that lucky sports jersey with their good luck number on it. Please, remember the god of this world is satan, he is the maker of the problems we see here. Jesus has the keys and all things will be set right in time, read Revelation.

The second thing I have heard is they want our God to act according to their paradigms of what a good god should act like. A news commentator thought that a good god should give just sunshine and blue skies, and He should not let bad things happen. Basically, he was blaming Father God for the work of satan and this fallen world. He went on to say that a good god should accept the things he did and never judge him.

The Third issue was the definition of love. Ask them to define the love they are talking about. The burden here is on you to know God’s love, a good study is the only way to have a good answer. When was the last time YOU studied the topic of agape (love), as found in the Bible? How do charis (grace) and God’s view of you sit in your study program? Oh, just one passage or internet search does not make a study of a word or topic!

Here are a few verses:

1. Psalm 45-God loves righteousness and hates wickedness.
2. Psalm 136-He is good and His love endures forever.
3. Acts 10:38-Jesus went about doing good.
4. Exodus 34:6-7-This is God introducing Himself to Moses on Mt. Sinai. 
5. 1 John 4:8 and 16 are the only verses I found that says “God is love”. That is enough for me, but I thought you should know. The Greek is theos eimi agape. This is from Mounce Reverse Interlinear.

Why-Is a very big part of the argument on how God acts. You need to know it is the god of this world they are complaining about, not Jehovah. Adam and Eve gave control of the Garden/world to satan, don’t blame Father God.   

Christians and love

Finger-pointing, condemnation, and you do not do enough were a few things I remember from the interviews. These are the same people that blocked Samaritan’s Purse from setting up during the pandemic to help New York hospitals. Helping and doing good deeds because we love God and our neighbor should be our heritage. Unfortunately, there are people who like to be Christians that don’t like Jesus and His ways. But, asking them how much they have personally given to relief and charity work may be a good start to changing the direction of the conversation. Just make sure you are part of the solution.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 does not fit well in a liberal thought process. Helping a person in need versus giving them everything does not get you votes on election day.  

The Father’s Love

Remember, God the Father’s love for us came at a price. There was a dead Son, a cross and beatings, blood, and letting His Son go through that for us. That part of God’s love the world cannot understand. Choosing Jesus and being led by the Spirit cost you something. Understanding grace and that the Blood of Jesus is why God accepts us with our sins is just not talked about enough.

God’s love is real, but you do not get to dictate to Him how He loves.