God is Love... REALLY?

The god of the Bible is a god of war... And claims to be the god of love. I don't understand it either.

Why can't Christians separate his personalities into different gods? It makes no sense to have such a vengeful, jealous, blood-thirsty god also be the ONE AND ONLY light, saviour, love, salvation, etc.

How do we know that there even is a moral or immoral standard? Evolutionarily speaking, cooperation is one way to succeed. Another is killing and eating your opponent. Morally speaking, those two things are equivalent.

To have any other standard accept that God does, in fact, set the standard of what is moral. He will not force anyone to be with him eternally and He allows you, freely, to be away from Him. The fact that being away from Him *is* Hell is not more His fault than the fact that the sharp blade of the knife is not the flat side.

Yes, God really is love. You need to know a couple of things about scripture. First, the natural mind alone cannot comprehend what's written. It takes being indwelled and led by God the Holy Spirit to do so. Second, you need to read scripture with understanding and see why God did what He did. That's called context.

God's command is His law of love: We are to love Him with all that we have and all that we are and we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. If you read the context of the passages that concern you, you'll probably find lots of disobedient choices. There are consequences for actions and choices. God tells us we need to choose between death and life and blessing and cursing.

Morals? Did you know that God made morals? God made the laws of the land and most of them still apply to the rest of the world that actually respects these laws and morals.

That means that God is the judge over all judges. In the world's view of court systems, the judge has to also abide by the courts law because the judge is a person, equal to us.

These laws dont apply to God because hes not a man to sin. The world belongs to him, and once you understand that he created it things might start making sense. God gives life and God takes life because of sin.

...since God (YHVH) is the Creator... He can do anything He want to do ! ...but since you're still stuck in the Old Covenant and hung-up on the 613 Laws...well, there's nothing I can hep you with unless you come into the Light of the New Covenant and the Blessing of Christ... First, consider reading the Book of John (4th Gospel of the New Covenant) to gain a better understanding of who "He" is and what "He's" all about ! (and) that the Freedom and Grace that "we" (who believe) all live under ! (unlike those who are still "bound" by the old Hebraic Law(s)

Yes, god loves us.

Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

God demonstrates much love in the Bible.

Your emotional reaction to hell aside God is the one who goes out of His way to keep us out. He allowed His only begotten Son to be tortured and killed solely because He loves you so much He doesn't want you to go to Hell.

Learn the difference between parabolic language and literal. Until you know that you will never come to truth in the Bible. Its painfully obvious that you don't have even the slightest grasp of Biblical terminology.

yes, he loves us so much he drowned the entire human population even babies to suffocate and die a frightening horrible death of which there was no escape.

It looks like the xians can't answer your question. They all dance around it with blah, blah, blah.