If people knew how good God is, they would love Him and live for Him. That, in turn, would solve all the problems of the world. But God has been so slandered that most people don't know Him as the good God He really is.
Why is that?
One of the biggest problems is religion's misuse of the Law. This has done tremendous damage to God's image. The Law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17). The Law wasn't inaccurate; it was incomplete. And if it is not properly applied, it wrongly represents God.
Jesus was the perfect representation of God (Heb. 1:3). He said that if we have seen Him, then we have seen the Father (John 14:9). He did exactly what He saw His Father do (John 5:19). Jesus showed us that God is love (1 John 4:8). Yet He was constantly accused of breaking the Law.
Of course, Jesus didn't break the Law. He's the only One who ever truly kept the Law. But the mercy and grace Jesus extended toward people was radically different from the "eye for eye" and "tooth for tooth" of the Old Testament Law.
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