I run into so many religious people who have issues involving drugs, alcohol, fidelity, smoking, lying etc. yet they think they have the authority to preach to me and impose on me bible verses to better my world in the guise of wanting to love me as their neighbor.
If you can't and dont know how to love yourself enough to stop abusing yourself to what extent can you love your neighbor?
2006-08-21 04:58:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bottom line(and no offense)
If that's how you love yourself, then please refrain from loving me.
Learn to love YOURSELF first.
Thanks.
2006-08-21 05:11:00 · update #1
Being religious & having faith in God is two different things. I struggled with tabacco for aprox. a year after I was delivered from a 1 year break down. I still had love & graditude in my heart & that went out toward others though. This was a personal battle hard to overcome. Though, since I was a child of God, I was an overcomer. I just had to tapp into it. The trick is to submit to God. Praying or singing His promises found in the bible. Forgiving others for past & walking in forgiveness for current situation. Just because I had a tabacco problem & still had other things to overcome, God had delivered me from much. I love God & that love flows to others. God loves me. If God loves me that much, I can love others. I love myself because God loves me & calls me beautiful. Also, I am the temple of the Holy Spirit so I need to take care of myself & not be in bondage to other things.
There are people out there that will say they love you when really they don't love themselves. They need healing. You need to realize they are where they are & love & encourage them. If they want to tell you something, you should listen. God may have delivered them from something. Cutting them down just wounds them & since they aren't mature Christians, that is just one more oppression they need to overcome.
2006-08-21 05:20:58 · answer #1 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you know what christians like people aren't perfect. Also in the bible it says to take the log out of your own eye before getting the speck out of a brothers eye... so your right they shouldn't judge you but they are sharing there wonderful life changing faith.
2006-08-21 12:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by torirowe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to love yourself first. Sometimes people get a false sense that they are "religiously correct" when they really need to take an indepth look at their lives.
2006-08-21 12:07:03 · answer #3 · answered by thesweetestthings24 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deep down, everyone's selfish. By their selfishness people can see how they are supposed to treat others - love others as they love themselves. If you're abusing yourself, that too is selfish, and the person needs to overcome their selfishness.
2006-08-21 12:07:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes you fine love for yourself by loving someone else.....some people have gotten so much into the ME thing that forgot about the us the unity of being part of something greater than out selves
2006-08-21 12:06:37 · answer #5 · answered by butterflyfrills 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I reckon if you really dislike yourself the Bible is telling you that you can take a chainsaw to your neighbor.
2006-08-21 12:04:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen!
Mat 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
2006-08-21 12:04:51 · answer #7 · answered by David T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't love someone else if you don't love yourself. Maybe those people are the "I love you more than myself" type, but it's not possible.
2006-08-21 12:05:51 · answer #8 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you that no one can give what they don't have. However, being a Christian is not the inability to do wrong but the heart commitment and zeal to seek God and as we do that, we wrong lesser and lesser
2006-08-21 12:05:30 · answer #9 · answered by Tommy M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very good point!
I think the problem is that they aren't really interested in helping others, but feeling more powerful than them by being one of the "chosen" and by telling others how they have to live.
2006-08-21 12:03:18 · answer #10 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋