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1 John 4:8 – God Is Not Only Love
No single verse contains all of God. No single scripture contains all of God’s theology. If this is true, then even “God is love” (1 John 4:8) is not all inclusive of all God is. God is not only love. God is righteous too, which can conflict with His desire that all men be saved (1 Tim.2:3-4). Therefore when we isolate one characteristic of God, or one doctrine, we are too narrow in our own minds and in our theology. How God’s love and righteousness co-exists is beyond us. Sometimes we need to throw up our hands, not out of despair, but out of praise of God’s transcendent immanence or if you prefer, God’s immanent transcendence. God does not always fit into our box, or into our linear thinking. God does not contradict, but God is a paradox. But even that one thought, God is a paradox, does not contain all of God’s theology. No single verse contains all of God.
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