Lighthouse said:That's not the lie. The lie is that God loves us "as" we are.
God loves us despite what we are, so much so that He wants to make us new.
The belief that He wants to leave us in our sin, and loves us that way, is a lie.
I didn't say that God loves our sin.
I said that God loves us as we are - meaning that he loves us now, saved or unsaved.
It doesn't mean that how we are is the way he wants us to stay, but you don't have to change to get God to love you, true?
It's unconditional. He loves us now, today, as we are.