As a part of a marketing class I'm taking, I'm reading a book called 'The Guru Papers', in it it says that God's unconditional love is not very unconditional, as you must believe in His Son to enter into Heaven. I believe that this displays a lack of understanding between the concept of love and the concept of a just God.
You see, God loves us all, everyone, no matter what. If He did not, He would not have sent His one and only Son into the world to die for the sins of all mankind. His love, without condition, for humanity is well established.
Let's talk about justness, or fairness. How fair is it for someone who is highly involved in their church, trying their best to live a good Christian life, and who has a genuine relationship with Jesus to go to hell? Not very fair, right? Likewise, how fair is it for a mass murdering psycho with no relationship with Jesus to go to Heaven? Again, not fair at all. See, the Christian makes a conscious choice to have a relationship with Jesus, while the unrepentant sinner makes a conscious choice not to (either knowingly or unknowingly). We choose whether we go to Heaven or to the other place. How fair would it be for God to allow people who made a conscious choice not to go to Heaven to go to heaven? Not fair at all.
Understand this, God loves everyone, even those who are in the pit of hell, and it breaks His heart to see them there. Acceptance of Jesus isn't the gateway to God's love, God gives His love freely to all, acceptance of Jesus is merely the conscious choice to live your life for Jesus and, ergo, spend eternity in Heaven continuing to live your life for Him and His cause.
God loves you no matter what, where you spend eternity is up to you.
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