Guest Post by Robert Sagers
Theologian and evangelical leader Carl F. H. Henry on Jesus and love:
It may seem an oversimplification to reduce the moral life of Jesus Christ to love. What of the stern side of his nature? the lightning-fierceness with which he assails sin? the sure threat of judgment and hell to come for unrepentant sinners? These emphases guard the definition of love. The gospels know no emotion worthily designated as love, whether applied to God in heaven or to his incarnate Son, which is unconditioned by righteousness and justice.
—Carl F. H. Henry, Christian Personal Ethics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1957), 414.