Post date: Sep 26, 2015 4:58:33 AM
Why do Christians try to teach that God loves Esau?
I don't know, but what we do know is that it is not honest exegesis or a Biblical character reference of God.
Maybe, if we teach that God's love is unconditional we hope to include our disobedient family members in heaven or that the standard will sufficiently drop so that we don't have to abandon our sin.
This is not the Gospel, it is humanistic and sentimental rebellion!
The word "unconditional" does not occur in scripture once.
Salvation and intimacy with God is highly conditional. That is why the Bible is so thick!
The slothful will never understand!
That a mothers love for her baby is undeserved is a fact, but that God's relationship with "us" or "the world" is unconditional is untrue.
7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
Psalm 45:7
If scripture teaches that God loves sinners but hates sin why does the Bible call the sinners by their sin?
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Beloved the gospel is indeed Good News but it is not unconditional.
In this manner God loved the kosmos once in the past, by giving His only begotten Son, so that those who believe (understand and love) and keep on believing will inherent eternal life and not be destroyed .