John made an important point by positing that love is not only a characteristic God possesses, it’s central to his nature - love who he is. John told us of this truth when he wrote,Ĩ Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. However, the distinction is not as clean-cut as some would like to assume. Some argue that God seems angry in the Old Testament, but that Jesus seems gentle and kind in the New Testament. Is God loving or wrathful? In so many ways, this goes to the very core of God’s nature. It seems that the two attributes that seem to conflict most are God’s love and his wrath. This is part of the paradox and mystery of the nature of the divine. God is able to simultaneously enbody two seemingly contradictory characteristics at the same time. For example, is God forgiving or just? Is God holy or willing to enter places permeated with evil and sin? Is God immanent or transcendent? Oftentimes the answer is not that God is simply one or the other, but he’s both. In trying to explain our complex God, people have often wrestled with the way seemingly competing attributes coexist. Many have undertaken to write of his character exploring innumerable attributes of his being. The character of God is complex, multi-faceted, and multi-dimensional.
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