With all due respect Hunter - what you just wrote is completely whacked!
Your very statements paint a picture of God unfit to His nature.
The Scriptures declare point-blank, "God is love."
To theologize HISgirl's question with a statement that is untrue to who God is misses the whole point to theology.
Well, as usual, I didn't really make myself clear. It seemed to me that the poster was requiring G-d to be love or love people.
Now then, what does it matter to me if He loves me or just likes me or just whatever....G-d has by His Grace saved me and for that I love, appreciate, respect and serve, to the best of my ability...why is that whacked ?
Now, if G-d has done this for me because He loves me, well OK, so be it, but I don't think He has to love me in order for that to happen. Why, because He is G-d.
Now , the fact that He does love me( i did state this in a follow up response) just makes it all the more special and anyone thinking that He would create something He loves just to destroy it...well now, that is whacked.
John 3:16
1Tim.2:4... Who will have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
It is not Gods will for anyone to perish, that's why He gave Jesus, His Son to die and arise again on the 3rd day.
Heb.10:26... For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
You see, it's completely up to us, whether we go to Heaven or hell. Gods Will is that all men will be saved.
Rom.10:9,10... That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Think about this: Why would God give His Son to suffer like no man has ever suffered if what He wrote in the KJV Bible was not true? God so loved the world, not just those that loved Him and served Him. John 3:16 says plainly...
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Notice it says God so loved the WORLD. Also notice WHOSOEVER. That means anyone, anywhere, any place. They must Believe and give their heart to Him, then OBEY HIM until their last breath. Then they'll go to Heaven forever. God does not want anyone to go to hell, period.