Does God love everyone? Nate explores God’s love, wrath, hell, and the cross.

Does God Love Everyone? God’s Wrath, Hell and the Cross Explained

What happens when a lighthearted plug for pillows and heated blankets collides with a serious question like does God love everyone? In this episode, Nate starts with supporting Christians in business (yes, including Mike Lindell’s MyPillow link), prays for Roy’s upcoming heart surgery, and then heads straight into the deep end: God’s love, God’s wrath, hell, Adam and Eve’s fall, kinism and racism, and why the Father did not spare His own Son. If you have wondered how God’s infinite love fits with infinite wrath, or why Jesus had to die at all, this conversation takes those questions seriously and answers them from Scripture.

Does God Love Everyone: The Biblical Bottom Line

The room spends significant time on the question, “does God love everyone?” Scripture gives a nuanced answer. God shows real kindness to all people in what theologians call common grace (Matthew 5:45), but He does not love everyone in the same covenant way He loves His children. Before conversion, Paul says we are “by nature children of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3), under God’s righteous anger for sin, not His fatherly delight. That is why the cross is necessary. Jesus, the sinless Son, willingly bears the penalty that our sin deserves so that all who repent and believe are no longer under wrath but are adopted as sons and daughters (John 3:16; see the passage at Bible Gateway). The discussion walks through Isaiah 53 and penal substitutionary atonement, showing that God’s justice and His love meet perfectly at the cross.

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Pillows, BedJets, and Bypass Surgery

Between debates on atonement theories, Nate and the crew manage to cover a surprising amount of ground in the “domestic comforts” department. There is an extended pitch for supporting Christians in business via MyPillow, a side quest into climate–controlled beds and BedJets, and then a very real moment as the group prays for Roy’s upcoming open–heart bypass surgery. It is an odd mix that somehow works: Christians can argue about penal substitutionary atonement one minute and compare mattress toppers the next, while sincerely entrusting a brother’s life to the Lord. If you ever wondered what real–time Christian community sounds like, it is probably this blend of theology, humor, and hospital dates.

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Love, Wrath, Hell and the Cross

The second half of the episode dives deeper into how God’s wrath relates to His love and why Jesus had to die. Listeners ask whether “infinite wrath” is compatible with “infinite love,” if eternal punishment for “finite sins” is just, and how to understand people still sinning in hell. Nate and guests explain that those who reject Christ remain in rebellion, that God’s law is eternal, and that without the cross we are all “children of wrath.” From there they compare penal substitutionary atonement with Christus Victor and other theories, arguing from passages like Isaiah 53 that the Bible teaches Christ bore God’s wrath in our place. Along the way, they address kinism versus racism, Joel Webbon controversies, and the claim that the cross is “cosmic child abuse,” showing why the Son’s willing sacrifice is the very heart of God’s saving love.

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