![]() ![]() Perfect love casts out fear, then finding contentment in the love of God through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, can we resist the devil, world, sinful desires of the past and the flesh, when we are enamored with a greater love, and filled with His love. Then how to learn to walk by faith and live in the spirit? One step at a time, replacing fear with faith in God and trusting God, and leading where His spirit leads, (into all truth, externally visible acts of agape, same works as the Lord Jesus) if indeed we have been taught the truth in Jesus. (Of course only in the born again sanctified believer of the Lord Jesus.) “Living” in the flesh isa type of existence, but temporal and earthly, fleeting and not worthy of eternity, therefore will not be remembered.Įternal life necessitates the eternal life of God inside. Our dependence on him is vital to our eternal life. Justified by faith, trusting God to do what we cannot. Read Revelation, lake of fire created for the devil and his angels. So God’s love is both conditional and unconditional, but He even fulfilled the conditions through the obedient life and sacrificial death of God the Son. So the condition for this element of God’s specific love for His people who will enjoy eternal life in the resurrection on the restored Earth is that they trust in Christ alone. This means that when we trust in Him, our sin is covered by His death ( Isaiah 53:6), and His perfect righteousness is credited to us ( 2 Corinthians 5:21), so that God sees us with the righteousness of Christ. But Jesus, in the Incarnation, lived the perfect sinless life we couldn’t live, and then died the death that we deserved, and rose on the third day. All of us deserve eternal judgment in Hell because we’ve sinned. ![]() So God’s providence in giving us the things we need to live like food and shelter and all the good things of life on earth, even though we’ve done nothing to deserve them, is a manifestation of God’s unconditional love toward His creation.īut there is a sense in which the specific love He shows to His people is conditional. But from a creation perspective, we can see how it must be both conditional and unconditional.įirst, if there were any conditions to God’s love, we couldn’t fulfill those conditions because we’re sinful ( Romans 3:23). Personally, I like Don Carson’s take on the subject in his book The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. The answer, in a way that might seem counterintuitive, is that it’s both conditional and unconditional. Is God’s love conditional, or is it unconditional? Her talk, Creation in the New Testament and Why it Matters, is available as a video download. She is the co-author of the booklets How Did We Get Our Bible? and Gay Marriage: Right or Wrong?. Her passion is interpreting the New Testament in a way that is understandable to the average Christian, as well as showing how the New Testament authors used the teachings of the Old Testament as the foundation for their theology, particularly in the area of Creation. Her thesis is titled Jesus the Honorable Broker: A Social-Scientific Efxegesis of Matthew 15:21–28. (cum laude) in New Testament from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2012. (summa cum laude) in Biblical Studies from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in 2008. Lita is a specialist in New Testament studies and obtained a B.A. Lita is well-known for her gracious, yet challenging responses to questioners and often detractors who contact It has been provided as part of a partnership with AllOnGeorgia and Creation Ministries International. The following article is an opinion piece and reflects the views of only the author and not those of AllOnGeorgia. ![]()
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