Should divine love be unconditional or justice enforcing?

God does not need your love. The respect is smtg. else.

OP, why are you asking us to judge God?

We don't judge God. God judges us.

What is smtg?

That is the beauty and power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ... God the Father is both perfectly just and perfectly merciful.

The wages of sin (transgression of the Law) is death. this is the Law of God and cannot be put aside. It is the perfect justice of God.

However, God the Father sent Jesus Christ to be the substitute for us, as He lead the perfect life unto His willing sacrifice. He suffered the death we deserve so that we can attain the eternal life that He offers.

All we have to do is accept Jesus Christ and the completed work He did on the cross.


An additional note regarding the power, love, and omniscience of God...

He established the means for our redemption at the very time of creation! Until God made man, all of God's other creations (principalities, powers, angels, etc) were all created spiritual beings; and the scriptures reveal they cannot receive forgiveness or redemption because they are spirit...

However, when God created us, He created us as flesh and through the flesh and sacrifice (first animals as a temporary foreshadowing of the True Lamb of God to come) we have a means of redemption and salvation. Because we are created flesh, we can be saved.

This is the amazing plan of how God can be both perfectly just through the Law and perfectly merciful through redemption and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

QUOTE; " Until God made man, all of God's other creations (principalities, powers, angels, etc) were all created spiritual beings; and the scriptures reveal they cannot receive forgiveness or redemption because they are spirit..."
I'm not following you, what needed redemption prior to man's sin? There was no rebellion until one angel wanted to play God in Eden.

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love throws fear outside, because fear exercises a restraint. Indeed, he that is under fear has not been made perfect in love. 19 As for us, we love, because he first loved us.'- 1 John 4;18,19

mercy

No, God does not "need" our love, but we, as individuals have the honor of making God rejoice if we take his side of the universal issue of Sovereignty, and prove Satan a liar, so which side would you choose?







'11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me."- Proverbs 27:11

Yes that's the balance, if we give him the effort to apply it.
"But you, O Jehovah, are a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and trueness." Ps86:15

So we shouldn't seek to understand his mercy?

"Stop judging that YOU may not be judged; 2 for with what judgment YOU are judging, YOU will be judged; and with the measure that YOU are measuring out, they will measure out to YOU. 3 Why, then, do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the rafter in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Allow me to extract the straw from your eye’; when, look! a rafter is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First extract the rafter from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to extract the straw from your brother’s eye." Mt7:1