saintsandsats on Nostr: One thing that I struggled with as a Protestant was the idea that God loved me. The ...

One thing that I struggled with as a Protestant was the idea that God loved me. The view I grew up with saw salvation as binary: either I was covered by the blood of Jesus or I was under the judgment and wrath of God for my sin. There were no other possible states. In that framing any salvation that is something more or other than “by grace through faith” was spiritually toxic because it made the salvation of Christ inaccessible and therefore meant my experience of God was only wrath.

But all I’ll say is that God loves you. God is for you, not against you. God’s wrath is not my problem, sin, death and the devil are my problem. That’s what we are saved from.