Can there be punishment from a God of Love? Can there be love from a God of Punishment? Is it that the God of Love allows creation to experience consequences due to its actions that we humans interpret as “punishment” out of this God's highest respect for our free will? Or is it that the God of Punishment is so eager to hurt us if we partake in destructive actions, thereby causing us to live in terror, forgetting mercy and forgiveness, while also causing us to become greatly occupied with following all the rules to make ourselves "righteous" in this God's eyes but seeing only sin in others?
Who is God?
“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.” Luke 6:35
