Love--true love, agape love, loves what is righteous and hates what is not. This is the nature of true, godly, love:
Psa 97:10 Hate evil, you who love the LORD, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
1Co 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth
Truth is knowable and absolute.
Wickedness and unrighteous is a all that is not according to God's holiness and word. It is knowable and unchanging because God is knowable and unchanging. Sin has been defined by God in Scripture and it cannot be redefined by people today according to one's sentimentality or culture.
God's justice is perfect, holy, righteous, and inflexible. It is not one of favoritism because of it's precise and absolute holiness.
Psa 97:2 Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
The Law shows His standard which hasn't changed between testaments nor between the NT and now, because it's Author is unchanging. If God is unchanging, and He is, then His Word, promises, threats, and warnings are unchanging and we will see their fruition in the End. It is in the Tribulation where we see God's inflexible iron of justice and absolute precise sword being weilded against all unbelievers for their rebellious unbelief after His merciful warnings to repent. He shows zero favoritism. Even to the widow and orphan. This is why Evangelicalism's co-belligerence with the worldly social "justice" is wrong. It presumes all widows,orphans, and Blacks to be righteous, all rich to be unrighteous, and all whites, especially males, to be unrighteous. This is the sin of favoritism.
Lev 19:15 'You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Jas 2:1 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
Isa 9:17 Therefore the Lord does not take pleasure in their young men, Nor does He have pity on their orphans or their widows; For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is speaking foolishness. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.
1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which
likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as
an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Orphans, widows,homosexuals and all ethncities will all be judged and killed in the Great Tribulation who did not repent of their sins, submit to Christ, and find salvation in Him alone. All of them. Only the remnant who turn to Christ will be saved. It has been this way from the Beginning.
When people begin to believe so-called science and/or psychology which redefines what is normal,healthy, and righteous to that which is abnormal, unhealthy, and unrighteous, they are showing doubt and rebellion against God's clear Word. They then start to apologize for perceived hurt feelings by those who are offenders of God's law and at the same time accuse those who love the Law and the Lord of it with sin which is not their's. It's only a half step then, to full acceptance of the wickedness and they will oppose anyone who refuses to submit to their Pharisaical, futile, foolish declarations, associations, and agendas. This is the trajectory of both Richard Mouw who infamously apologized to the Mormons at their headquarters in Salt Lake City for--in his view-- of supposed mistreatment of Mormons by Evangelicals, and that of Al Mohler, who apologized to Mormons and homosexuals for--in his view--perceived mistreatment of homosexuals by Evangelicals. This is unjust because it: elevates these men to popish heights as if they speak on behalf of all Evangelicals, presumes sin upon all Evangelicals, and promotes tolerance for wickedness.
Social "justice" is not biblical justice by any stretch of the imagination. It begins with elevating man and ignoring (at best) God and His clear and solely authoritative Word (which makes no categories of justice at all). To have true justice is to fear the biblical God, believe all of Scripture including the sound doctrines of Creation in six literal days, eschatology, sotierology, ecclessiology, Christology, sin, the Gospel, etc. That is the foundation of knowing God's standard of righteousness and justice, as Ps 97:2 talks about. The world starts with rebellion against God and His Word and their minds are futile, dark, and without wisdom, full of foolishness and vanity.
Jas 3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.
Eph 4:17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
Eph 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
Eph 4:19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
Eph 4:20 But you did not learn Christ in this way,
Eph 4:21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
Eph 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
Eph 4:23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Eph 4:24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
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