It doesn't mean we stop loving them, praying for them, and seek after God to help them. But it does mean we stop trusting them, expect the worse from them, and eventually have to stop contact with them.
When I take scripture, specifically how God Himself describes Who He is and the example Jesus displayed for us and I fit His words together. I see a God whose Love is so true that you can feel His pain when Israel continually sinned against Him. You could sense His frustration when He forgave them again and again and they would serve other gods. You could realize His Mercy when He would warn them of punishment but withheld it over and over. And then we see Jesus who was a man of incredible sorrow, pain, and suffering. Who was betrayed and despised but gave His life willingly for us. You see God as He truly is.
And to have people denigrate God to a level as executioner, picking and choosing people to burn eternally in a devil's Hell, as a Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon type character. And claim this is their Great God and His Sovereignty and they justify Him as a skitzo freak. I want to physically hurt them. Because they have taken True Pure Love and formatted it into judicial justification. I really don't understand how anyone would want to serve a God like that.
When I take scripture, specifically how God Himself describes Who He is and the example Jesus displayed for us and I fit His words together. I see a God whose Love is so true that you can feel His pain when Israel continually sinned against Him. You could sense His frustration when He forgave them again and again and they would serve other gods. You could realize His Mercy when He would warn them of punishment but withheld it over and over. And then we see Jesus who was a man of incredible sorrow, pain, and suffering. Who was betrayed and despised but gave His life willingly for us. You see God as He truly is.
And to have people denigrate God to a level as executioner, picking and choosing people to burn eternally in a devil's Hell, as a Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon type character. And claim this is their Great God and His Sovereignty and they justify Him as a skitzo freak. I want to physically hurt them. Because they have taken True Pure Love and formatted it into judicial justification. I really don't understand how anyone would want to serve a God like that.