Peter Boonstra of Lynnwood is terribly mistaken when he writes that “God does not love those who do not believe in Jesus Christ.” (“Letter writer misses the point of verses,” Feb. 22) The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, can be seen as a love letter telling us how God longs for relationship with us and the lengths he has gone to in order to reach us. He is a loving God and a just God. Because he is perfectly holy and pure and just, there are consequences to our choices, and none of us deserves to go to heaven. We have all hated another person in our hearts, for example, and Jesus said that hate is like murder. But God is so loving that he provides a way for us to be clean and holy again…by Jesus taking our yuckiness onto himself at the cross. If we accept that, we are clean and can be in God’s presence. God does love us all. He doesn’t want any of us to go to hell; that’s why he sent his own son to make a bridge for us to come back to him. He gives us free will to make the choice whether to take that bridge or not. God is love. He can’t not love.
Romans 5:8 says, “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Elizabeth Scott
Edmonds
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