Unconditional love and the church's approach to homosexuality

You miss the point. God doesn't change; God doesn't fall away; God doesn't abandon anyone. People change, fall away, and abandon God.

Your right god does not change

So a person who claims to have faith and later walked away NEVER HAD FAITH, they walked away because they felt nothing from God and they did not experience Gods love, hence why they walked away to begin with

It’s not that God failed them, it’s that God knew they did not have real faith

Do you believe God gave us free will? If so, God loves us so much that HE gave us the free will that allows us to reject HIM; HE loves us so much that HE gave us the free will that allows us to rebel against HIM; HE loves us so much that HE gace us the free will that allows us to sin against HIM; and yes, HE loves us so much that HE gave us the the free will to make a choice to either live eternally with HIM in heaven or live eternally without HIM in hell. Would God have loved us more if he made us as machineswith no free will, that we could do no wrong and commit no sins because we are programmed accordngly?

Jesus said the church at Ephesus: Revelation 2: "4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent."

They loved the Lord but fell away, abandoned their first love.

Looks like they have to repent, again.

I didn't say anything about free will. I zeroed in on your comment, I highlighted it because it was oddly phrased. Period.

THE CHURCH

Learn the difference between a church in a city full of many people and individuals in that church

God has removed the lamp stand from many churches because they have lost their way. Not because individuals left

You think a church is not made of individuals? Ekklesia is the word in Greek and means those PEOPLE that are called out or assembled.

I asked you about free will. What's your response?

Response is the same. We're not going down rabbit trails. I get that you're a right fighter and we not playing that game here. Your comment that God lovingly sends people to hell was weird. He doesn't. It grieves him. My point hasn't changed and we're not going till point 2 till we get past point one.

Stand firm, they love to skip past the ones they either can’t or do not want to answer

Response is the same. We're not going down rabbit trails. I get that you're a right fighter and we not playing that game here. Your comment that God lovingly sends people to hell was weird. He doesn't. It grieves him. My point hasn't changed and we're not going till point 2 till we get past point one.

People plural

He threatened to removed the lamp stand from the Church in that city

Not an individual who fell away

Why are you fighting so hard to reject grace

Ha, its ok, I know northerners, they love to argue.

ps. Get ready for a freak out

Yes, the people of that assembly were apostates. The people of that assembly left their first love. The people of that assembly were commanded to repent, again.

Northerners? 😆 So, you make assumptions based on a screen name often, or always? 🤣

Jerrys not in Boston ?? You live there you are one or you become one. rofl

Yes, the people of that assembly were apostates. The people of that assembly left their first love. The people of that assembly were commanded to repent, again.

Wow. It don't take much for you. 🤣

The church lefts its first love

To try to use that to say a person who leaves us cast out is rediculous

It doesn't take much for me to..., what Jerry in Boston?