Reply #74: We see things quite differently,

[Zebedeo]

it appears.

"Feigning love" of God would be an exercise in futility. "God knows your hearts." Luke 16:15

You complain that it would be unjust for those who have never heard of God to be condemned. Then you lash out disdainfully at the very missionaries who devote their lives to reaching those same people with the Good News.

You say: "I have been unable to believe that God damns unbelievers." Are you constructing your own God? God is who He is ("I AM") and His nature is not changed by the fact that a particular person is unable to believe in damnation. The Bible clearly instructs that salvation is through Christ. "No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 Though that may seem exclusionary to some, it is not. Jesus is available to everyone, through the Holy Spirit. In fact, just after the passage you cite is the following: "when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them." Romans 2:14-15.

"God is not some cosmic Joan Crawford." On that, we can agree.