God Is Love
To say God is Love is true but to think it is love how the world thinks of it; that would be wrong. Homo-sexual acts are not love, cheating spouses is not love, co-habitation;people who are not married living together; is not love. Saying you want to undo what happened to your daughter or sister if she was raped; a.k.a; abort the child; that is not love but selfishness. Killing is not love, rape is not love; two wrongs do not make a right but a wrong.
No, God is Love. God is Love which means He loves life. He loves traditional marriage; which there is no other; homo-sexual unions are not marriages.
I wanted to touch on the simple stuff first; the basics; now I will go into the hard stuff.
God is Love; what does that mean?
Let us look at the beginning, where He created everything out of nothing. God is God and He didn't need to make us so He would feel more complete; but He wanted to; because God loves us and wants us to share in His life in Heaven.
From all eternity God is and will be. There is not a different God for the Old and New; they are the same God. You would be grumpy too if no one listened to you and followed your commands. He was grumpy; because the people didn't have any trust in Him and those that did; made it into the Promise Land; which is now Israel.
Let us back up to the creation of Man and use something from Blessed Don Scotus. God's love truly showed here; when Man and Woman was made and joined in marriage. Also when God promised salvation from the fall of Adam and Eve. In the days of Blessed Don Scotus and now; there is something they called Presumption Theology or What if Theology. They did the what if; Adam and Eve never sinned; would God ever send His Son into the world to redeem it?
Most answers were, "I don't know, maybe, no; but the Franciscan; Blessed Don Scotus said yes, "yes, because Man is in need of saving. He can not save himself." So, God would of had to send His Son anyway to redeem Man.
God's truest form that He is Love; is by sending us His Only Beloved Son to found this Church, the Sacraments and everything of the Church. But His most true form of His love; is giving of Himself freely on the Cross; to pay our ransom and free us from the devil.
Why would God need to do this?
God is all knowing and powerful and so, why do all of this? Why create earth and Heaven, the animals, people, the angels, everything? Then humble Himself and take on flesh and die on the cross for all of man-kind? This is my opinion and I may be wrong and if I am; correct me please; God created everything; not because He needed it but because He isn't selfish and wants us to be with Him for all eternity and that is why He created everything that He did; so He can be with us and we can come to know Him.
God is love and that means He is all Truth; but loving isn't "seeking self interest or inflated, proud, love doesn't rejoice over wrong doing but over truthfullness." St. Paul's first letter to Corinthians Chapter 13. God is love; which means He can't seek self interest; because the third person of the Holy Trinity help St. Paul write and so this means we know something about love from God's point of view. God is love which means he can't become prideful; the pride that is a sin; not the good pride; which means He was going to do this from the start and He did; because He loves us so much and wants us to experience this love and only way to do that; is to be in Heaven.
To be in Heaven; means and goes back to Creation and to the fall; even if there wasn't a fall then; there would be and no matter what; God would become Man and redeem Man; and we know what happened to redeem us and we mustn't forget it; no matter how hard the enemy wants us to forget it. If it means we wear a Crucifix to remind us or have one in our pocket; as St. Dominic Savio; a student of St. Don Bosco did and many other saints. To understand or get a understanding is a better term for it; is to look at the Crucifix and learn the true message of Love and how much God loves each one of us personally.
God bless
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