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God's love is predicated on knowing, or rather, fore-knowing, and he does not love those whom he does not know. "Depart from me...I never knew you"
So you may know your mother, and love her, as I do mine, but the question is: Does God know her? If God does not know her, then He does not love her?
Does he hate her? I don't know - I think "hate" can be understood both ways - so either way the question is, does He love her with that special love that He has for those whom He foreknew?
When TV preachers look into the camera and say that they love me, I always react within myself "no you don't! You don't even know me. What if I were a serial pedophile? You wouldn't say that."
I don't think you can disconnect "loving" from "knowing", either for man or God.
O.K. I'll take a bite at that. My theologically untrained reaction is yes, in a sense you can love someone more than God does.Can I love someone more than God does?
God's love is predicated on knowing, or rather, fore-knowing, and he does not love those whom he does not know. "Depart from me...I never knew you"
So you may know your mother, and love her, as I do mine, but the question is: Does God know her? If God does not know her, then He does not love her?
Does he hate her? I don't know - I think "hate" can be understood both ways - so either way the question is, does He love her with that special love that He has for those whom He foreknew?
When TV preachers look into the camera and say that they love me, I always react within myself "no you don't! You don't even know me. What if I were a serial pedophile? You wouldn't say that."
I don't think you can disconnect "loving" from "knowing", either for man or God.