52 - How God Can Be Both Loving And Just Without Sacrificing Either One

Worldview Legacy | The Think Institute · Nov 12, 2019 · 21m

Well, how many times have you heard someone tell you this: “God is love”? The phrase comes from 1 John 4:8.

And the full context of that verse is this: “The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love” (that’s from the Christian Standard Bible, the CSB. The Bible has many translations in English. The CSB is one of my favorite translations. Maybe I’ll do a review on it some time. But in whatever translation you read it, 1 John 4:8, at least the second half of the verse, is pretty much going to say the same thing. In the Greek, it’s ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν--hah theh-ahs aGAHpay…