I am paraphrasing, of course.
Do you think that is true???
How would you show someone the highest or greatest love you have for them???
2006-12-06 18:17:52 · 20 answers · asked by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Live a sinless life, or as close to it is as humanly possible, but then forfeit your spot in heaven and give it to someone else, so that you suffer eternal damnation in their stead. That would be the ULTIMATE sacrifice.
2006-12-06 18:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yes. It is true that someone could love so much, that they would be willing to die for them.
Even more so, also telling them that it would happen before it happened. If they gave up everything, being rich and famous, and turning away from perfection, in order to go to a dirty, smelly, rotten place in order to save people who did not deserve it. A bunch of people who didn't even know Him.
That would be love, what else could it be?
"How would you show someone the highest or greatest love you have for them???"
By doing things that are needed without being asked. By being compassionate, and giving of myself, even though I might rather be doing other things for myself. That would be self-sacrificing. Serving others, and loving them. Spending time with them. That's how it's done by God, and that's the example for us to follow. ( :
2006-12-07 02:29:16 · answer #2 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And this is why Jesus is who he was and we are who we are... He had the power to lay down his life for us, and yes there have been people through out history that will take a bullet for their children some even jump in the way of a moving vehicle to save a loved one, and just two or three years ago there was a guy in the news that gave his life to save a stranger, they call these people heroes I call Jesus the savior of all mankind, and there is no greater love than his. God Bless
2006-12-07 02:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by Alicia S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I disagree that the greatest love you can show for someone is to die for them.
I think that the greatest sacrifice you could make for another is to forfeit the life of your CHILD for them.
That, I imagine, is infinitely harder than giving up one's own life.
In the "real world" the most difficult love to give another is to consistently LIVE for them.
That is not something that only is chosen once, like death. Rather it is something that must be chosen repeatedly in continued self-sacrifice.
Personally, I'm incapable of either kind.
2006-12-07 02:38:14 · answer #4 · answered by Banting B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
I Cr 13;8a
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Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas
2006-12-07 05:38:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would you show someone the highest or greatest love you have for them? - I cannot love someone to that level. I am too selfish - (I find out). (According to my ex.)
Do you think that is true? - Yes, sounds very noble and true love way.
2006-12-10 03:02:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the reasons the Bible sais this, that the highest or greatest love you can show someone is to die for them, is to express the vaule of Jesus himself giving up his live. He had the greatest love because he laid down his life fo us. Therefore, his example is one to live up to... in otherwords we should be willing to go to that extent, to give up our own life for someone elses sake. Yes, I believe it is true.
2006-12-07 03:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I may sometimes envy the dead but that is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of . what are friends for : how about living for something instead.
If I could retrieve some of my best friends who have gone the way of their demise what a better world it would be for me !
Theological logic and their guilt trips are as insulting to my intelligence as a heart attack is to my well being.
peace out and enjoy the life while it's here
2006-12-07 02:52:21 · answer #8 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that I agree with that statement, but if I were you I wouldn't go running to the nearest cliff just yet.
If someone asks you to commit an act that will prove to them that you deeply love them they probably don't have the best of intentions. If your current actions don't convince them that you love them, then maybe you don't. However, if you genuinely do love them, then they should know it already without having to have some grand act of sacrifice on your part.
2006-12-07 02:27:46 · answer #9 · answered by baloneycurtains 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 15: 13
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Sometimes I don't necessarily think it's important to die for people, but to give up our lives in serving them.
2006-12-07 02:20:56 · answer #10 · answered by drshorty 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
To lay down one's life for someone doesn't necessarily mean that you must die. Good husbands and fathers do it all the time...
.... it means the money you used to spend on golf is now spent on diapers and tricycles. The time that used to be spent at the bar watching the basketball game is now spent changing diapers and watching "veggie tales".
Christ wants us to give up "self" as our God, and turn to Him as our lord. The sin of Adam and Eve was "I will be my own boss." That gets reversed when we accept Christ and say "You will be my boss." That's what gibing up our life, to find it really means.
2006-12-07 02:51:50 · answer #11 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋