In an attempt to bring the concept of love and indiscriminate indiscriminate as basic fact of religion , the entire biblical teaching on redemption has been mercilessly shattered. If God is love and nothing but love, what may be a need for redemption? Certainly, such a God can not need to be placated. Is not He the Father of all total? Is not pining for his children with unconditional desire to exclude all thought of "obstacles to forgiveness? What else do but precisely the children?. Our modern theorists never tire of singing more and more variations on this one basic theme: God does not need to be moved to forgive, or be able to forgive, to forgive even without injury to its attributes, all the difficulty, according to them, is to induce men to prepare to be forgiven, God is continually extending from heaven her arms longingly towards men, is absurd; we are told, perverse and even terrible blasphemy, speaking to promote a God like this, reconcile, to offer a satisfaction, love does not need to satisfy you, you reconcile, propitiate, not has nothing to do with such things, by its nature free flowing, spontaneous, instinctive and unconditionally, to its target, and God is love!. Well, surely God is love, and praise Him for to repeat ourselves this glorious truth guided by a better authority than the passionate assertion of this kind of crude theorists. God is love! but it does not follow in any manner that is only love. God is love, but love is not God and, therefore, the term "love" must always be inadequate to express God. God is Love can be, and for us sinners, lost in our sin and misery if not for this, it must be, the summit of the Christian revelation. But it is not the Christian revelation of where we learned to think of God as someone who is not nothing but love. There is no doubt that God is Father of all men in some sense true and important. But the term "All-Father" we have not captured from the lips of any prophet or any apostle Hebrew Christian. And the indiscriminate "benevolent" that has captivated so many religious thinkers of our time, there is a genuine concept of Christianity, but typically pagan import. When one reads the pages of popular religious literature, full of inconsiderate statements about the universal fatherhood of God, has a strange sense of being brought back to atmosphere, so to speak, decadent paganism of the fourth and fifth centuries, when the gods came to its decline, and who resigned clung to the old ways they had little more than a bitter sense of "Benignitas numinis, how are spattered pages of those great ancient pagans with such an expression, how their self-conscious feelings are soaked in the belief that the friendly deity who dwells in the heights will probably not be hard on the men who toil down here! How are terrified of the stern justice of God of the Christians, who appears to her frightened eyes to those of the modern poet who does not see God but "the hard God who dwelt in Jerusalem!" Surely the Great Divine is too good to look at the peccadilloes of the poor emaciated man, surely God watches with amused compassion rather than with fierce disapproval are convinced, above all, that his Maker "is a good person and all be fine. "can not but arise in our minds the question whether our modern indiscriminate" benevolent "goes further than that. Does all this unilateral proclamation of the universal Fatherhood of God long numinis Benignitas more than the heathen?, when we take on our lips these blessed words, "God is love", are we sure to express much more than our reluctance to believe God is going to seriously ask the man accountable for his sin?, in short, are we in these modern times, yearning to go back to a more appropriate capture the transcendent truth that God is love, as well as protesting passionately against the idea of \u200b\u200bseeing blackened and treated as sinners deserving of wrath?. Surely it is impossible to attribute any real substance to the words "God is love" unless they are released along with all other concepts such as sublime as "God is light", God is Holiness " "God is a consuming fire." The love of God can not be grasped in its length, width, height and depth, all of which go beyond the knowledge-unless it is captured as the love of a God who turns his face at the sight of unspeakable hatred and sin unquenchable burning with indignation against him. The infinity of his love would not clarified by the prodigality of his favor toward sinners without requiring an atonement for sin, but, through holiness and justice of such magnitude that forced him to raise his voice with infinite hatred, and indignation by a great love for sinners who do provide a satisfaction for their sins, suitable for such tremendous critical exigencias.Cierto, some as frivolous, looking at the religion of Israel, has said, expressing his admiration for what he found there, that "an honest God is the noblest work of man." There is a profound truth hidden in this observation. Only it is clear that such work was too noble for man, and probably the man has never succeeded. A benevolent God, if, the men have forged for themselves a benevolent God, but God absolutely honest, if ever, this knowledge is thanks to the revelation of Himself God has given us. And this is really the distinguishing characteristic of God's revelation: He is a thoroughly honest and conscientious God-a God who behaves honestly and thoroughly with yourself and with us. And we can be sure that a completely thorough God is not God that sinners can behave as if they were sinners. This fact is supported by perhaps the deepest core of the need for redemption expiatoria.Y this fact is also where the base sits deeper increasing failure of the modern world to appreciate the need for sacrificial redemption. The rectitude of conscience can only be tuned by an awakened consciousness, and in much of the recent theologizing, consciousness seems especially active. In truth, nothing is so overwhelming in the structure of recent theories about redemption as the apparent disappearance the sense of sin behind them. It is certain that, only when the sense of guilt and sin has faded considerably, men can assume that everything you need to purge is to repent. It is also certain that, only when the sense of the power of sin has fallen deeply, men can imagine that can and want him out of another by means of a "revolutionary repentance." And also it is certain that, only when the sense of the atrocity of sin has virtually disappeared, the man can imagine that the holy and righteous God can treat sin lightly. If you do not have much to be saved, then a very small atonement will suffice for our needs. After all, is only the sinner who needs a Savior. But if we are sinners and we realize what that means, then cry out for a Savior such that only after he himself was made perfect through suffering, might become the Author of eternal salvation.
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