Discourse on God (YHWH) is Love: 1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

(American Sta ndard Version; ASV) All of God's (YHWH's) attributes are outstanding, perfect, and appealing. But the most endearing quality of God (YHWH) is love. Nothing else can draw so stro ngly to God (YHWH) as his love. Happily, love is also his dominant quality. Now how do we know that? The Bible says something about love that it never does about his other attribute s. The scriptures never say that God (YHWH) is power or that God (YHWH) is jus tice or even that God (YHWH) is wisdom; although he possess all these attributes . He, in fact, is the ultimate source of all three. However, with respect love, something more profound is said at 1 John 4:8, quote d before, "God is love." Yes, love runs very deeply in God (YHWH). It is his very essence or nature. We might consider it this way (1) God's (YHWH's) power enables him to act; (2) H is justice and wisdom guide the way he acts; but most important, his love is alw ays reflected in the way he uses his other attributes. He is the very personification of love. Therefore, True Christians want to lea rn about God (YHWH). Now let's consider some of the aspects of God's (YHWH's) matchless love. His greatest act n per Colossians every creature." This can safely this? of love was sending his only begotten Son, the first of creatio 1:15, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of (Authorized King James Bible; AV), to suffer and die for us. be said to be the greatest act of love in all history. Why is

The Bible as previously quoted at Colossians 1:15, says, "the firstborn of every creature;" Just think the Creator, God's (YHWH's) Son who was in existence befo re the physical universe, but not before God (YHWH) who had no beginning, can y ou imagine. How long before the universe was created was Jesus (Yeshua) create d, the Bible does not state. This son had for untold times served as God's (YH WH's) 'master worker' per Proverbs 8:30, "Then I was beside Him, {as} a master w orkman; And I was daily {His} delight, Rejoicing always before Him, " (ASV); and John 1:3, "All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing c ame into being that has come into being." (ASV), thus God (YHWH) and his Son wor ked together to bring all else into existence. Therefore they had a very strong bond; they are united by the strongest bond of love ever known. Nevertheless, God (YHWH) sent his Son, Jesus (Yeshua) to eart h to be born as a human. This was a great sacrifice of love on his part, and o n one occasion he spoke fro heaven saying, Matthew 3:17, "and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.." (ASV) . While on earth, Jesus (Yeshua) faithfully carried out his Father's (YHWH's) dire ctions. Yet, he let his Son be betrayed, and executed to fulfill prophecy, and be for a period no longer in existence. Since God (YHWH) has feelings, the pa in he must have suffered over the death of his Son is beyond the power of our wo rds to express. Why did he permit this to happen? This is revealed as an act of great love for mankind at John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he ga ve his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life." (ASV). So God's (YHWH's) motives amounted to pure love. No greater love has ever been shown.

Now, how can we tell who are the faithful footstep followers of Jesus (Yeshua) C hrist? Easily by their example of love. As Jesus (Yeshua) testified to at Ma tthew 5:43-44, "Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, an d hate thine enemy: 44 but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;" (ASV); And at, Matthew 22:39, "And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (ASV): and at Mark 12:31, "Th e second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other c ommandment greater than these" (ASV); And at Luke 6:27, "But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you," (ASV). Thus those doing these things are the faithful footstep followers of Jesus (Yesh ua) God's (YHWH's) only begotten Son, second only to God (HYWH) [not coequal] in heaven after his Father (YHWH) resurrected him as affirmed at 1 Corinthians 15: 3-8, "For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Chr ist died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures; 5 and th at he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve; 6 then he appeared to above five h undred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep; 7 then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles; 8 and las t of all, as to the [child] untimely born, he appeared to me also." (ASV). Clearly, then, if any group hates, persecutes, and kills others, it is NOT of Go d (YHWH) since it has been shown, "for God is love"; therefore, it is of God's ( YHWH's) arch enemy as shown at 2 Corinthians 4:4, "in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them]." (ASV). Now the choice is each persons, do we go to God's (YHWH's) side and take on his chief attribute of love or do we attach ourselves to a group that has hated, per secuted, and killed others without just cause, i.e., a group belonging to the go d of this system. Only you can make that choice for yourself. APPENDIX: (1) "[RATSACH] is a purely Hebrew term. It has no clear cognate in any of the co ntemporary tongues. The root occurs thirty -eight times in the OT, with fourteen occurrences in Num 35. The initial use of the root appears in the Ten Commandme nts (Exo 20:13). In that important text it appears in the simple Qal stem with the negative adverb, "You shall not murder, " being a more precise reading than the too-general KJV "thou shalt not kill." Much has been ma de of the fact that the root rfa appears in the Mosaic legislation, as though this term bore a special connotation of premeditation, as though the Decalogue only proscribed premeditated crime. This is not the case, The many occurrences in Num 35 deal with the organization of the six cities of refuge to which manslayers who killed a person accidentally could flee. Numbers 35:11 makes completely clear that the refuge was for those guilty of unpremeditated, accidental killings. This makes clear that [RATSACH] applies equally to both cases of premeditated mu rder and killings as a result of any other circumstances, what English Common La w has called, "man slaughter." The root also describes killing for revenge (Num 35:27, 30) and assassination (2Kings 6:32). It appears in a few poetic contexts, as an "A" word in a peculiar parallel construction (Job 24:14); as an "A" word parallel to a general term for immorality, zimma (Hos 6:9); as a "B" word parall el to another synonym "to kill, " "to slay" (Psa 94:6). In only one case in the whole OT is the root used of the killing of man by an animal (Prov 22:13). But e ven in that context it is the enormity and horror of the deed which is primary. In all other cases of the use of [RATSACH], it is man's crime against man and Go d's censure of it which is uppermost. W.W."

* Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Harris. L. R, Archer G.L, Waltke B. K, 1980 (2) A comparison of several versions of the Bible gives the following is the res ult. Ex. 20:13 Murder: CEV ESV TEV GW LITV NASB MSG NWT NIV NKJV NLT NRSV WEB, Rotherham, YLT, Byington, Goodspeed, ISR, Concordant Kill: Darby, KJ21, KJV, MKJV, NJB, RSV, NET, Brenton, AKJV, RNKJV, Revised Webster, Mark 10:19 Murder: CEV HCSB EMTV ESV TEV GW LITV NASB MSG NET NWT NIV NKJV NLT NRSV WEB Weymouth Montgomery, 21st Century NT, Rotherham, YLT, Byington, Goodspeed, Christian Bible, Concordant Kill: Darby, Diaglott, KJ21, KJV, MKJV, NJB, RSV, AKJV, Murdoch, RNKJV, RVIC, Revised Webster, 20th Century NT, It seems the MURDERS have it, and the NET Bible seems to be inconsistent as it moves from the Exodus (kill) to the NT (murder). (3) In an essay on capitol punishment talk show host and Jewish theologian Denni s Prager highlighted the difference between "murder" and the broader term of "ki lling". He wrote: "As William F. Buckley Jr. has argued, if capitol punishment i s state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping. Many opponents of capi tol punishment claim not to grasp the moral distinction between the murder of an innocent person and the execution of a murderer. This reductionist mode of thin king (moral equivalence) has come to dominate opposition to capitol punishment. thus, the head of Amnesty International-USA has called the United States "a serial killer" because it executes murderers. To put it succinctly, this claim that the murder of an innocent and the execution of the murderer are morally equivalent because they both involve taking a life is as morally perver se as a claim that rape and lovemakeing are morally equivalent because both invo lve sexual intercourse. (That some prominent radical feminists, such as Andrea D workin, make such a claim doesn't diminish its moral perversity, it only illustr ates the prevalence of moral equivalence and moral illiteracy in our time.)" Wh ile I don't agree with them, I can see how a soldier that is a member of Christe ndom might seek to justify the killing of Saddam and his thugs. But how do they justify or rationalize the killing of innocent men women and children who get c aught in the crossfire or are mistaken as the enemy? I've asked people before th at tried to rationalize military service which army would Jesus or the Apostles join if they were on earth today? Christians are to follow Christ example. As so meone wanting to follow his footsteps as close as possable I need to know so I c an sign up. I never have received an answer. Now to know the truth, go to: 1) 2) 3) http://religioustruths.yuku.com/ http://www.network54.com/Forum/403209/ http://religioustruths.lefora.com/

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