We are not saying that Izzy is more deserving of love or the blood of Jesus Christ.
I'm not sure that I agree. Izzy is found worthy of the blood of Christ. Arafat has been found wanting and is not worthy of Jesus Christ.
Jonathan wrote:
Note the last part of my sentence: we need to realize that God loves both Izzy and Arafat.
I think God has come to hate Arafat and love Izzy.
Jonathan wrote:
In that context we realize that God may be more pleased with Izzy than Arafat but His love for both of them is the same.
This makes no logical sense. If he is more please with Izzy, then he loves Izzy more. God will cast the wicked into hell fire. God will refuse them the inheritance of eternal life. How can God do that to someone he loves? That makes no sense to me.
Do you believe that some people are more worthy than other people? Consider passages like the following:
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(2 Thessalonians 1:11-12)
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
(Revelation 3:4)
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
(2 Thessalonians 1:4-6)
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
(Colossians 1:9-10)
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
(Luke 21:36)
But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
(Luke 20:35)
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
(Matthew 10:37-38)
And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
(Matthew 10:11)
Peace be with you. David Miller.
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