[ 2 + 2 = chicken ]

   A lot of this will tag along with my last blog post -- which I highly recommend reading before this, actually.

   Watch this to begin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODUvw2McL8g

   First of all, I really enjoyed Rob Bell's "Everything is Spiritual" spiel. Loved it, actually. I love that kind of science, digging into the deepness and intricate matter of God's creation.
   But with this, he's just gone completely off into something that doesn't line up with the Bible at all. And I really fail to see how any of this can be Biblical.
   It just doesn't add up. 2 + 2 = chicken? I don't think so.

   See, a lot of people have this idea that God's love is unconditional. As it seems, Bell believes as well, with "Love Wins."

   The Bible doesn't say that anywhere.
   So where does that notion come from? Where did that originate?
   In fact, how does that line up with people who don't choose God going to Hell?

   The term "unconditional love", I feel, comes from our own inability to handle a God that does send people to Hell. I think it's easier for me to understand because I understand the whole gift of free will, hence humans being able to choose their own path and end result of their life. [Enternal life vs. enternal death.]

   It's just really scary for me to think that people believe what Bell is talking about here.

   You know, I think what I've realized is that we don't understand what God's love is at all. I think our human minds understand what human love is. But God's love is completely different. And so much more profound. I think we need to redefine what God's love is. Or what it isn't.

   God chose to love each one of us. And yet, He sends people to Hell.

   So, in our little minds, this doesn't add up, does it. But it does.

   Because God loves us, He gave us free will, yes? Yes. Because if we were made to automatically love Him, it wouldn't be true love. So He made the ultimade decision and gave us the choice to love Him. Or not. And by doing that, Hell existed.

   Hm. Is this still difficult? Because love in our minds means nothing bad happens, right?

   That's the box we've put God's love in, and thus, God Himself.

   I'm still in the process of studying this. His love is vast and profound. And I never expect to understand it fully.

   But at the same time, we shouldn't put all of the emphasis on His love. The Bible talks more about His righteous, not His love. The righteousness of God.

   The defition for "righteous" [found here : http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/righteous]
   1. characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.

   2. morally right or justifiable: righteous indignation.

   3. acting in an upright, moral way; virtuous: a righteous and godly person.  

   God is just. And apparently it is a more prominent side of God in the Bible. Meaning, perhaps we really do put a lot more emphasis on God's love rather than His righteousness. I wonder how that would change things. Because they don't contradict each other either.

   I have a lot to study and mull over. Thank God for the Holy Spirit to guide me towards the truth, yeah? Heck yeah.
  
   Thoughts. As usual, thrown on this page.

    End note. Ever since coming back from DTS, my mind has been going crazy. In a good way. I'm constantly having new revelations everyday, and am always asking Him questions. It's great -- and is something I'm really excited about. This curious/philosophical side of me has been awakened again.

   But anyway, here's something that I realized a few weeks ago. And to some of you, it'll be like "Duh Kayla, I already knew this." Seriously, actually think about it.

   Life is just about us getting to know and understanding more of God and who He is. That's it. So through each trial and each thing that happens everyday, we have opportunities to learn more about Him. Like getting married and having that intimacy with your husband/wife -- that's like having the SMALLEST understanding of what intimacy with God is like. I mean, shoot. Challenge yourself, everyday, through everything that happens, to ask yourself "How can I see God in a new way through this?" or "How is God working differently here?" Just by me asking myself those questions [especially in DTS], I've had some serious perspective shifts.

   I seriously CANNOT FREAKING WAIT to get to Heaven. Mostly experiencing that utter intimacy with Him. Imagine what we can experience here on earth, and then think what it'll be like in Heaven.

   That's a new thought for me too. Woah.

   God blows my mind. That's all I can say.