The Value of Human life

Humans are precious and valuable to the extent that they are obedient and to the extent that they are saved.

Once John 3 16 is understood correctly everything gets the correct perspective.

Soon there will be 10 billion humans on earth. How precious are they to God?

God does not love the disobedient

Please find one verse where it say that he loves Philistia, Tyre, Egypt, Ethiopia, Babylon or Assyria. He sees them, deals with them, has expectations of them and judges them, but there is not one verse about loving them. The love of God is simply not the sentimental affections we as humans think of.

There is not one verse in the NT that says that God loves unbelievers.

John 3 16 says that He “loved” - past perfect tense, the Cosmos. It does not say he has sentimental affection for Adolf Hitler.

The modern notions of unconditional love that have permeated in the western church is humanistic and feministic, it is not spiritual or even true. This false “love gospel” has cost more half-Christians their lives that any other doctrine because it teaches peace when there is no peace.

How God loves the world?

By crucifying us in Christ so that in the resurrection we may acceptable and perfect before Him in Christ.

The idea that we have been things by Christ, like forgiveness, righteousness, son-ship, salvation etc, outside of Christ is extremely destructive. He is our forgiveness, righteousness, son-ship, salvation. we have these thing in Him, nowhere else.

In him, we love, righteousness, salvation, forgiveness, death and resurrection. HE did not GIVE this to us. He IS this so us. We have access to these things and also to the father Himself IN Christ.

These things are ours IN Christ, Not because of Christ.

John 3:16

Humanism

The humans run up and down, are beautiful, stupid, confused, deceived, cool, nice, cruel or whatever.

Do not be deceived, Christ alone is precious!! And all such as are found in him.

Below one of thousands of portions bearing out God understanding, forbearance and brutal solution for humans.

1. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valleys, To those who are overcome with wine!

2. Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.

3. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, Will be trampled underfoot;

4. And the glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valley, Like the first fruit before the summer, Which an observer sees; He eats it up while it is still in his hand.

5. In that day the Lord of hosts will be For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty To the remnant of His people,

6. For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

7. But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8. For all tables are full of vomit and filth; No place is clean.

9. “Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts?

10. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little.”

11. For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people,

12. To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.

13. But the word of the Lord was to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little,” That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.

14. Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

15. Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

16. Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.

17. Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place.

18. Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

19. As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass over, And by day and by night; It will be a terror just to understand the report.”

Isaiah 28:1-19