Since the heart of a man was his inward man. The bible describes that as the organs and entrails... why don't we on Valentines Day tell our girlfriends/wives that we love them with our kidney, liver, spleen, pancreas, large intestines etc. etc. etc. Will they not appreciate us if we talk like that and is that why they changed it to heart?
2006-10-27 17:43:49 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hi Damage Control. This is what God teaches when he commands us to love Him with all our Heart. First let me post the verse you are referring to. The Lord was speaking to a scribe who asked him "which is the first commandment of all?" Jesus says in Mark 12:30:
"And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment."
The Lord told the scribe that the greatest commandment is to love God. When a person loves the Lord with all of His heart, it means that with his whole essence he loves the Lord. God describes this "heart" love in
Matthew 6:21:
"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." This is also taught in Matthew 12:34-35:
"Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things."
Where your treasure is there you will find your heart. Everyone should ask himself the question, "Is God the greatest treasure in my life or does someone or something else occupy that place?"
What is the most important thing is your life? God demands that He have first place in a person's life.
2006-10-27 19:12:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible describes the "inward man" as the spiritual being of a person--which I think you already know--infact I think you know a lot more than you lead your readers to believe-- I think you just want to pick a fight with a Christian. But, in case you are sincerely ignorant, the Bible no where describes the inward, spiritual man as having fleshly kidney, liver spleen etc. Rather, the heart referred to is the "seat of the soul" as one religion put it. The heart of the inner man is that essence of humans-similar to the soul- that can accept or reject the concept of God. The Bible says "the heart of man is desperately wicked." and that the concept of having a relationship with a personal God (not a "Force" or Universal Mind as taught by some religions) is foolishness to them that are perishing. Are you perishing Damage Control? Jesus, said "behold I stand at the door and knock, if any man hear my voice and opens the door I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me." So if your question is a joke, it will stay a joke. You obviously know enough to quote one of the ten commandments. "Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for what soever a man sows that shall he also reap." You could go out and party tonight, and wrap your car around a telephone pole. Or you could live to be seventy, the question is Damage Control, what are you doing about your inner man, and what's going on in your heart?
-Spec
2006-10-27 18:15:23 · answer #2 · answered by Spec 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Folks around the world have regarded the heart as the seat of the soul and the center of the emotions since ancient times. Even the most primitive peoples surely noticed that the heart pounded during times of stress, whether from chasing game or pining for a beloved, and they also saw that if you took a spear through it you died. It was only natural to conclude that the heart was the home base of courage, love, the life essence, and other good stuff. The Bible says, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul," and similar thoughts can be found in the sacred writings of many religions.
2006-10-27 17:49:44 · answer #3 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well realistically you love someone with all the emotion you have stored in your brains emotional box. Your heart does not assimilate feelings of emotion. Feelings do not come from the heart but from the brain and are attached to memories and data stored as you learn and grow. However the heart shape generally associated with Valentine's Day is a rather pleasing and emotionally stirring picture. If your heart were to stop beating then your brain would eventually die and no feelings could be processed so I suppose the heart could be considered crucial to the having and expressing of feelings from that aspect.
2006-10-27 17:52:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hebrews got the idea of the heart being the location of thought and soul from Egyptians. The Egyptians did not know what the brain was for and that is why when the preserved mummies they kept the heart and threw the brain away.
2006-10-27 17:52:30 · answer #5 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your understanding of loving God with all your heart, and the inward man needs some damage control.
2006-10-27 17:52:20 · answer #6 · answered by lost and found 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“Valentine, St. A priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians. He became a convert and, . . . he was clubbed to death. His day is 14 February. . .
“The ancient custom of choosing Valentines has only accidental relation to [the] saint, being essentially a relic of the old Roman Lupercalia . . . or from association with the mating season of birds. It was marked by the giving of presents and nowadays by the sending of a card on which cupids, transfixed hearts, etc., are depicted.”
And what does Cupid have to do with Valentine Day? The same source says: “Cupid (Lat[in] cupido, desire, love). The Roman god of love, identified with the Greek Eros. He is usually represented as a beautiful winged boy, blindfolded, and carrying a bow and arrows.”
The World Book Encyclopedia gives further information, offering various theories on the origin of Valentine Day practices. “According to one story, the Roman Emperor Claudius II in the A.D. 200’s forbade young men to marry. The emperor thought single men made better soldiers. A priest named Valentine disobeyed the emperor’s order and secretly married young couples. . . . Many stories say that Valentine was executed on February 14 about A.D. 269. In A.D. 496, Saint Pope Gelasius I named February 14 as St. Valentine’s Day.”
Regardless of the true origin of the practice, it is evident that it is rooted in ancient pagan beliefs and in Christendom’s listing of so-called “saints.” Valentine Day is also another excuse for commercial exploitation of an often uninformed public.—2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
2006-10-27 17:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by Emma 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Would you like your girlfriend to speak so lovingly to you? We don't live in the time of the Bible, things have changed, you can tell someone you love them without resorting to describing the internal organs.
2006-10-27 17:49:01 · answer #8 · answered by june clever 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because there are too many love songs to re-write and not enough words that rhyme with intestines.
2006-10-27 17:47:49 · answer #9 · answered by Sweetserenity 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the ancient Greeks thought emotion came from the kidney, so they could have said "I love you with all my kidney".
2006-10-27 17:47:32 · answer #10 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋