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butterbobbinNotes scribbled in last quarter's Sabbath school book...
Is it more effective to make a statement or a demonstration? God could have just told everyone He was love. But nobody would ever have been completely sure. Only the active demonstration of that love in the form of Jesus was truly effective proof that God's character was, indeed, love.
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Desire of Ages, p. 761, 762: "Lucifer in heaven had sinned in the light of God's glory." (Glory in this sense refers to the light of Who God is, His character.) "To him as to no other created being was given a revelation of God's love. Understanding the character of God, knowing his goodness, Satan chose to follow his own selfish, independent will. This choice was final. There was no more that God could do to save him."
Is it more effective to make a statement or a demonstration? God could have just told everyone He was love. But nobody would ever have been completely sure. Only the active demonstration of that love in the form of Jesus was truly effective proof that God's character was, indeed, love.
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Desire of Ages, p. 761, 762: "Lucifer in heaven had sinned in the light of God's glory." (Glory in this sense refers to the light of Who God is, His character.) "To him as to no other created being was given a revelation of God's love. Understanding the character of God, knowing his goodness, Satan chose to follow his own selfish, independent will. This choice was final. There was no more that God could do to save him."