Reblogged from a whole bunch of people, including… purpleferretspirit:pinktriangleonhersleeve:laughingsquid:

Draw a circle around the one God loves the most.

Now this is not a god I would want to worship.

You know what?  Me neither.

While I don’t want to get too deep into the theology of baptism, if I believed that God loved any person any less because that person hadn’t been sprinkled, dunked, or splashed with water, then I would choose not to be a Christian.

Making such a distinction is just like the argument in the early church about whether converts to The Way had to be circumcised.  Does God love this man more than that one, because this one has been circumcised?  It sounds absolutely ridiculous, doesn’t it?  And yet, people are willing to believe that an action performed by a human being can cause God to love this person more than God loves that one.  It is patently absurd.  And the reason is right there for us in scripture, written in a letter to a group of early followers of The Way:

For I am convinced
that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor rulers,
nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers,
nor height, nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

It’s that simple.  Absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God.  Nothing.  Not circumcision nor un-circumcision.  Not water nor lack of water.  Not priestly blessing nor human cursing. Not anything at all.  Nothing.

God loves us all. Period. Full stop.

Amen! Alleluia!