Does Love Punish?

In recent years a teaching has become prevalent that God's attribute of Love trumps all His other attributes - especially His being a just God and a Judge. I personally believe that only a full-orbed view of God that includes all the attributes of His nature and character (that God's own Word reveal) can be accurate.  If we focus on only one, at the expense of the others, we will in essence be refashioning God after our own human ideas. (This, fundamentally, is idolatry - and is breaking the very first commandment not to make any image, or other representation, of God.)

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