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For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.  (John 3:16 ESV)

 This verse reveals the amazing truth that the Creator of the universe loved the human race so much that He sent the second Person of the Trinity—God the Son, Jesus—to become human and to die in our place for the sins we have committed, so that we wouldn’t have to suffer the penalty for those sins even though we deserve to.
 God’s plan of salvation, which was decided upon before the creation of the world, is rooted in God’s love for humankind. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love us and made a way for us to be saved from the ultimate consequence of sin—spiritual death and separation from God in the afterlife, which is called hell in Scripture.
 Some people have the impression that God is a cruel and angry God: that He judges people harshly because He is personally offended that they sinned against Him, and therefore He selfishly demands that they be punished.
 He could have justly punished every human being for their sins. Instead, because His divine nature includes the attributes of love, mercy, and grace, His wish was that no one should perish, and to that end He has made a way in which humans can be redeemed. His love is such that even though we are sinners and have sinned against Him, He has, in love, made a way that we can be saved from the merited judgment for our sins. God’s plan of salvation is the manifestation of His mercy and love for humankind. —Peter Amsterdam [1]

Faith is akin to open arms that welcome grace, it is a grasping of God's hand that is offered to us while we are immersed in our loneliness of limited creatures. —Gianfranco Ravasi

[1] Anchor God’s Plan