God Tube - INHERITANCE - GOD LOVES YOU
Here is what I wrote back to her and my sisters who were cc'd on the email, along with some other friends.
Sounds pretty man-centered to me. This is what we fought against with Rick Warren and Purpose Driven. It's not about me, (even though Rick Warren says that, his entire book is "about me."). When he looks at me, he sees Christ's righteousness, and that is what he loves.
You can only love God as much as you love yourself
?!?
That is completely New Age and sadly not surprising to hear in many churches these days.
It is also his nature to hate sin... I agree there is nothing we can do to make him love us more or less. But that originates completely in him, not because of any intrinsic worth in myself.
truth about how God sees you and His outrageous love for you.
Even if you have no plans to walk with him? I seem to recall that the Bible says that God hates all those who do iniquity. Psalm 5 for example4 You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;
with you the wicked cannot dwell.5 The arrogant cannot stand in your presence;
you hate all who do wrong.6 You destroy those who tell lies;
bloodthirsty and deceitful men
the LORD abhors.7 But I, by your great mercy,
will come into your house;
in reverence will I bow down
toward your holy temple.But because of His great love and mercy, wishing to demonstrate that, he draws some to believe and be justified by Christ's sacrifice, through faith in that sacrifice.
Paula
