Question 18 - Love fever! (Is God love or a consuming fire?)

1 John 4:8 NKJV - "He who does not love does not know God, for God is love."

Hebrews 12:29 NKJV - "For our God is a consuming fire."

Answer:

                Exodus 24:17, 2 Deuteronomy 4:24, Isaiah 33:14, the Lord God burnt the sacrifices of Abraham, Abel, Elijah, the sheep of Job and cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 “when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels ⁸ in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus”.

The love of God is considered as the love of Father. Merely, this is an attempt to create unholy to the holy, to draw the righteous one to unrighteous and to deviate the one from the Lord to make him to blaspheme the Lord. But, it is not atheism.