What is this bible verse saying about people who don't know God?

Question

1 John 2
11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

Answer 1

People are blinded by the light, not the darkness.

Answer 2

This verse is not talking about disliking a disagreeable Christian brother or sister. There will always be people we will not like as well as others. John's words focus on the ATTITUDE that causes us to ignore or despise others, to treat them as irritants, competitors or enemies. Christian love is not a feeling but a choice. We can choose to be concerned with people's well-being and treat them with respect, whether or not we feel affection toward them. If we choose to love others, God will help us express our love.

Answer 3

It is talking about spiritual blindness and the lack of spiritual wisdom. The one who doesn't know God is lost and can't see where his actions are taking him or where he will end up.

Answer 4

Something about darkness.

Answer 5

That would be mental darkness.
Spiritual darkness, if you prefer.
They have eyes but they cannot 'see'.

Answer 6

I think it is saying - you shouldn't hate other people even if you don't agree with them.

Makes sense to this atheist

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Answer 7

it is saying that those who are not experiencing divine love are blind - lack of experience of divine love is blindness - existence is love - god is I AM - existence is the essence of god - existence is a gift from god, it is a love-gift - if you got a universe in your christmas stocking, you would be blown away - you have got a universe in your christmas stocking - but so many people are not blown away, because they have fallen into knowledge of good and evil - they have looked the gift-horse in the mouth and said: this is good this is not good - they have judged the present, picked it to pieces, and missed the point: that existence is a lovegift - the gift of life tells us that there is someone who loves us enormously and just wishes us to love ourselves and care for ourselves as much as he loves us - love doesnt judge - knowledge of good and evil - judgng, not loving - is the original sin - the root sin - god's love is so great that he made us fall into this meanness of heart only so that he could demonstrate the infinity of his love for us by saving us from it: romans 11,32: god delivers everyone to disobedience, so that he can have mercy on all - we are spoiled brats, who get a universe, a life, a world, an existence, a divinity in our christmas stocking, and we judge it, we pick it to pieces, we say: this is okay, this is no good - and we miss the love, we fail to grasp the tremendous vast infinite love that it represents - and god sets himself to work to save us from our spoiledbratness, our blindness, our judging, our hate, our ignorance of the infinite love that is everywhere, in every grassblade, in every breeze, in every breath - stop breathing, and see how strong your will is to breathe, to live, to exist - see how much you really love existing! - so why are we blind? why do we forget? why do we love ourselves so poorly that we have no consciousness of the enormous gift of love in our christmas stocking, every day every breath - we are loved! enormously! let us labour to experience it - we are blind to the infinite love all around us - how great a gift is the sun coming up? we think: it is nothing - but how extremely appalled we would instantly be if it didnt come up! - so let us acquire consciousness, sight for reality, that we are infinitely loved, let us acquire respect for the love that is given us and which, underneath, we appreciate - existence is love is god!
'i laugh at those who seek for god as i would laugh at a fish in the ocean looking for water' st augustine - as the palmolive ad has it: youre soaking in it - just imagine if the universe disappears - will you be thinking it is nothing then? - just nothingness, in every direction, for all time - that will be the supreme bummer - and every second, it isnt so - every second, a universe is delivered to your door - someone, something loves you - so do yourself a favour, and let yourself admit it, let yourself feel it enjoy it - you hate yourself every second that you are blind to the infinite love that everything is - existence! I AM! life! your existence is your divinity - you are divine, you are in the midst of the most incredible thing - wipe away that taking-for-granted blindness, that selfhating, missing out on experiencing the love you are soaking in every second - learn to love yourself, learn to see the love, lern to let the love in, admit to yourself that you are loved, infinitely, and then you can help others learn the same - and when you let ove in, you will love love - because to experience love is to love love [god, existence]
every scientist in the world with all the funding in the world and 100 years or a 1000, can not make one atom, and you have been given 10 to the power 59 atoms - by something, by some unknown power, about which we can know nothing, except that it exists and has given - every second god is doing a zillion jobs in a billion cells of your body so you can exist - god is coordinating, managing all the jobs in your body - your liver is doing 500 chemical operations all the time - this universe is an infinite theme park - and it is free to you, day and night - if scientists could make a human body, how expensive would it be?! - bill gates could not afford one - only god is great enough to make us blind to the infinite gift of life - and he does it out of love - he lets the prodigal son leave [become blind to the love], so that the prodigal son can return and experience the perfect love of the father - we take for granted, so that we can stop taking for granted - we become blind so that we can begin to see - the unknown god is hidden, very very well, in plain sight! we mentally chop the universe up into a million pieces and give the pieces names, and fill dictionaries and encyclopedias with the pieces, and thus we forget that the whole is love! and this happens so that we can return to truth, to love, to divinity, to infinity, to bliss, to consciousness, to sight, to reality
'be still and know that i am god' - in other words, be attentive, try to see, and thus experience I AM [ie, existence, god, perfect love] - 'it is good to let lie before one, and thus take to heart, the existence of existence' parmenides
a vast vast love, a supertremendous power, an infinite energy, to create zillions of things definitely exists
infinity is all around us - each atom has infinite energy to bizz about forever - energy cannot be created or destroyed - see, merge with, energy-love- spirit-god -heaven and live forever!