I'm not a Christian, so can you help me understand how you believe your god loves everyone? Like it just seems impossible to me to reconcile that idea with reality.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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Not christian, but in abrahamic religions all human are children of God, so they should all be loved.
I think Dostoyevsky sums up pretty well, love everyone in theory, misanthropy in practice.
I think the typical answer is to start digging into the definition of “love”. I am personally of the opinion that the number of self serving, narrow ways to interpret the Bible significantly outweigh the number of holistic, neighborly interpretations. The history of Christianity is filled with selfish power hungry people using whatever means necessary to justify their quests for power and domination.
How the Bible is interpreted is a perpetually evolving art practiced differently by different group. Do the laws of the old testament apply to modern life? Is the book of Revelation a metaphor for how to live or a literal prophesy for the end of the world?
I personally find great amusement at some of the contrasts between what Jesus teaches and what are taught in the epistles. Most amusing, of course, is how openly Jesus associated with women vs what Paul keeps espousing at the end of 1 Corinth 14 and 1 Tomothy 2.
So to more succinctly state it, since God is manifested in significant part through our actions, the rules are ultimately made up and the points don’t matter. statements like “God loves everybody” is as a declaration of the state of the universe in so far as it is an admission of one’s own moral values. It is imperative to espouse and defend this narrative that God loves everybody because otherwise it becomes false.
If this constructed version of God doesn’t make sense, we can perfectly swap “God” and “Mother Nature” as they are interchangeable concepts. I find some rest in the belief that our existence aligns with the inherent nature of the universe, even if we can be real boneheads about it sometimes.
Don’t downvote folks asking sincere questions yall.
Meh, I get it, I'm in your space, it's all good.
You know what? I'm gonna start ~~loving~~ downvoting people ~~you don't like~~ asking questions even harder.
