I can't escape the truths that God is Love, and (not yet, but and) God is Just.

I am 90% sure I am among the reprobate, yet, I can and indeed must testify that even through a lifetime full of unbelief and other sin, God has been Good.

His Goodness and Love are such, that even toward a reprobate like me, they are infinitely better than the goodness and love of even the best of my fellow humans.

If He hates me . . . a possibility that I grant . . . His hatred is still better than the love of man.

The flip side is also true though. He is Just, and no one can escape His justice, except via the Cross.

The possibility occurs to me, though it is speculation, that reprobation is in fact an expression of His Love, as much as it is His Justice. That it may well be the best outcome possible for the reprobate. Consider the alternatives. Should we stand in His presence? We cannot, for He is Holy. Should He overlook our sin? He cannot, for the same reason. It must be dealt with, and it is, in Christ, for all those who are in Him, but not for those who are not His. Purgatory? Contrary to Scripture, and doesn't change anything, because no amount of suffering on our part can atone for the tiniest part of our tiniest sin (presuming any kind or part of sin can be called "tiny" to begin with, in that it is against a Holy God). "Limbo"? (a Catholic pretense of a state in which one is neither rewarded by God's presence, yet not actively tormented, as if a person who loved Him could experience His absence as anything short of infinite torment)? Also unbiblical and kind of self-contradictory.

Aspiring student of Christ