"god Is Love" Does Not Represent The Biblical View Of God

What is the process for determining the biblical view of anything?  Those who reject the process are automatically and totally exempted from further conversation about the topic. 

1.  Define “biblical view”.

2.  Define the subject.  What truth are you searching?  Apply Step 5.  You have not defined your subject until you can use the word “always” or “never” in a manner that does not strain reason/logic.

3. Assemble 100% of the Bible’s contribution to the subject.

4. Understand the subject as it is defined within the text of each use.

5.  Get rid of all assumptions by using or the word “always,” “sometimes” or “never’ to every conclusion drawn regarding the subject as it is defined within the text of each use.

6.  Get rid of all competing views as those views are revealed within your (our) understanding of the subject as it is defined within the text of each use.

7.  When we think we have arrived at a proper conclusion, if a reasonably intelligent saved 10-year-old child cannot understand it, it is an errant conclusion in whole or in part.  There is an errant opinion or faulty presupposition that is hiding in the conclusion.  Get rid of it (or them).  In forming a biblical view there is absolutely no room for opinion or presupposition, even if the option or presupposition is correct. 

1.  Define “biblical view”.  

     Answer: The complete truth. 

2.  Define the subject as best we can; the complete truth as we understand the complete truth that we are seeking.

     Response: In this case, can we say that “God is love” is the complete truth we are seeking.  When we apply Step 5, we have “God is love ALWAYS.”  That cannot be a viable subject for consideration because “God hated Esau” (Romans 9:13) and “God hates all those that do wrong.”  (Psalms 5:5). Therefore, “God is love” cannot even be considered a viable topic of discussion or interest for determining a biblical view.  At best we can determine that “God is love sometimes.”  “Sometimes” does not represent a scholastic conclusion.  Just about anything can be “sometimes.”  It is a conversation for the intellectually stunted. 

What is my conclusion?  My conclusion is that “God is love” is not a statement that represents the biblical view unless we are content with “God is sometimes love and sometimes not and sometimes other than or more or less than love” because “God is love” does not represent all of the truth about what God is. “God is love” is a truth, but “God is love” is not THE truth because “God is love” is not ALL of the truth about what “God is.”  Any reasonably intelligent 10-year old can understand that.   Hell is not an expression of God’s love, but of his wrath.  Vengeance is God’s (Deut. 32:35) and is not his expression of love towards the object of his vengeance.   God laughs at the misery of the wicked. (Ps. 37:13.)  His laughter at their misery is not God expression of love.  Is God love.  Yes, sometimes.  However, is God is not always love, so God is love cannot be the full revelation of the character of God. 

It is a fearful thing to fall into the  hands of a living God.  (Hebrews 10:31.) 

You know I am austere.  (Luke 19:22, edited for effect.)  (Luke 19:22.)