God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children
Overview
God doesn’t just love us. He is love. God's Love explores the unrelenting love of God, which found its ultimate expression through His Son. This release also explains difficult themes such as the different aspects of God’s nature, how His love coexists with His holiness, and what the Bible means when it mentions God’s hatred. This is a compelling read for all who long to love as God loves.
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- Helps readers to understand how to love as God loves
- Looks at some of the problematic questions that arise with respect to the love of God
- Stresses how God's love relates to His other attributes and how His inherent love serves as the standard by which human love is to operate
- God Is Love
- Eternal Love
- The Loyal Love of God
- The Loving-Kindness of God
- The Electing Love of God
- Love and Hate in God
- The Threefold Love of God
- Agape Love
- The Greatest of These...
- Conclusion: Of The Father's Love Begotten
Top Highlights
“The text of 1 Samuel says that Jonathan loved David as ‘he loved his own soul’ (20:17).” (Page 51)
“We also could conclude that John was saying God is the fountain or source of all true love” (Page 15)
“It is important to remember that when we speak of the attributes of God, we are speaking of properties that cannot be bifurcated from one another. One of the first affirmations we make about the nature of God is that He is not a composite being. Rather, we confess that God is a simple being. This does not mean that God is ‘easy’ in the sense that a simple task is not a difficult task. Here, simplicity is not contrasted with difficulty but with composition. A being who is composite is made up of definite parts.” (Pages 16–17)
“If we deny God’s estrangement from us, the cross is reduced to a pathetic and anemic moral influence with no substitutionary satisfaction of God.” (Page 134)
“We need to distinguish between what love means and what it emphatically does not mean” (Page 12)
- Title: God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children
- Author: R. C. Sproul
- Publisher: David C. Cook
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Pages: 243
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: God › Love; Religion › Christian theology--General
- ISBNs: 9780781408523, 0781408520
- Resource ID: LLS:9780781408523
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:41:25Z
R. C. Sproul (1939– 2017) was a respected teacher, theologian, pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries where he served as executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Sproul held degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary. He taught at several colleges and seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He served as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, in Sanford, Florida. Sproul’s teaching can be heard daily on the ‘Renewing Your Mind’ radio broadcast which plays in over 40 countries.
Sproul wrote over 70 books and articles including the classic The Holiness of God and several theological articles in Tabletalk magazine.