The tougher question is whether God loves his human enemies the way he commands us to love our human enemies.

And at one level, the answer is yes, but not at every level.

In fact, Jesus tells us to model our love of our enemies on his love of his

enemies. In Matthew 544, I say to you, love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you so that you may be

sons of your father who is in heaven for. He makes his son to rise on the evil and the good. In other words, he loves his

enemies and sends rain on the just and the unjust. So you treat your enemies that way too. But there's

a difference, isn't there? We are finite and do not know the deep heart condition of our enemies.

We do not know the final trajectory of their

unbelief and their hard hardness, hardness of heart. Given our limitations, it is always right

for us to pray and work for their temporal and eternal good until they're dead.

But God does know the deep heart condition of our enemies.

He knows the final trajectory of their unbelief and their hardness.

He knows whether he will exert an omnipotent saving influence in

their lives, and therefore what he expects from us in our ignorance and finiteness isn't the same

as what he exercises in his infinite wisdom and knowledge

and power. He expects us to pray for their salvation, work for their salvation until they're

dead. But he does not always give that salvation. Acts 1348, Ephesians 2.5, 2.2.25 and 26.

So I think the answer to Ken, the second question is, first, neither God nor God's people are expected to love Satan, and second, both God and His people

love their human enemies, but not in the same way, since God is all wise and all governing,

and we are finite and very limited in our understanding and wisdom. Am I wrong for still that I choose another way?

I ain't trying to do what everybody else doing,

just cause everybody doing what they all do.

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