Joel V Webb

  Why does God judge? How could a God who is love possibly judge? Can these be reconciled? There are many in the Christian landscape who do not think so, and thus deny a key characteristic of God, His justice. So what is judgment, what is it's purpose, and how can these two seemingly opposed sides of justice and love be reconciled? Part of what the issue is in my mind is a misunderstanding of what the word love is defined as. Our modern world often looks at the concept of love and reduces it down to a feeling. You know, the fluttering in our stomachs when someone flirts with us. The word love is thrown around without any grounding definition, which has led to absurdities like signs saying "love is love". You cannot define a word by itself, and without an actual meaning then in reality nothing is being said. Fundamentally the word we say as love can be rightly defined as "willing or intending the best for the other." This means that even hard or difficult things