THREE
CATEGORIES OF GOD’S LOVE
There are three categories to
God's love.
1.
Personal: The
object of God's personal love is perfect righteousness, both toward the other
Members of the Godhead, and toward all believers to whom He imputes His
perfect righteousness.
2.
Spiritual self-esteem: Spiritual
self-esteem is His love directed toward His own perfect righteousness.
3.
Impersonal: Impersonal
love is reserved for creatures after they fail.
It is directed toward mankind who is spiritually dead in total
depravity. The highest expression
of God's impersonal love occurred when God imputed to His Son all our sins,
and when Jesus Christ was willing to be judged for all our sins.