Have you read apodemeo's post? It is long, but VERY well worth your time!

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In observing some of what is being believed and said these days, we have become increasingly concerned about much of what is being accepted as gospel truth. The message being promoted sounds like: "God loves you so go ahead and do whatever you think is right, do what you want to; you have the freedom to choose because Christ has freed you from all accountability and responsibility and anyone who says otherwise is trying to put you back under the law".

Obviously there is truth in that God is Love and we have been freed from the law of sin and death. However, the other side of that is truth which brings much needed balance: our Father is Holy, and while we know Him intimately (as He desires us to), yet we are also in awe and reverence of Him. We are His children AND His servants (both) and as such we are responsible and accountable to Him for what we say and do (Matt. 16:27; Rom. 14:12; 1 Pet. 4:4,5). When one truth is focused on to the exclusion of other balancing truths, the result is a mixture of truth and error.

One thing I hear frequently is that God is a God of Love and not of judgment. The phrase "God is Love" occurs only twice in the Bible, and while it is beyond dispute that God is loving, my question is: Why does He have to be either Love or Judgment; can He not be BOTH? It seems very clear to me that He is both, "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Him... For the time [has arrived] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will [be] the end of those who do not respect or believe or obey the good news of God? ...You make God tired with all your talk. 'How do we tire him out?' you ask. By saying, 'God loves sinners and sin alike. God loves all.' And also by saying, 'Judgment? God's too nice to judge.'"  (1 Jn. 4:16,17; 1 Pet. 4:17; Mal. 2:17).