Correctly, unconditionally....etc
2006-12-14 04:44:53 · 19 answers · asked by SmartPerson 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How can you even begin to truly love yourself or others if you don't even love your creator, God the Almighty. This is a simple answer. You need to love God with all your heart and soul. Only then will you truly love someone.
2006-12-14 04:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
For the most part, I think that it is. For some reason, when I am studying on God, I have feelings of love welling up within me for someone I happen to see passing by for instance that I wouldn't give a second thought to otherwise. Because for "God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16. "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him." John 3:17. May His name forever be praised.
2006-12-14 12:58:54 · answer #2 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is two way to love people:
1. Through God.
2. Through your own love.
There is a lot of people who don't know God and can love others. but through God ur loving will be:
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
2006-12-14 12:53:29 · answer #3 · answered by الحقيقة 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes because God Loves you unconditionally and if you have the love of God in you their is nothing false about you.
2006-12-14 12:49:31 · answer #4 · answered by ruru 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think truly loving God would and should make you want to take action in loving people.
Like providing a service, helping to feed the hungry, etc.
Also taking personal action, like being kinder to people, more understanding of them.
Some people say, "Love is what love does." And you only have what you give away.
I guess we are all connected. So loving people in a philosophical way, if ya feel ya can't do more, still works.
At least it is no unkind action. And thought counts.
2006-12-14 12:56:15 · answer #5 · answered by smoothsoullady 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Real love is defined at 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. It's completely different from the ways of the world, it's based on biblical principals and morals, and not only emotions. Besides...the bible says that we love because God loved us first. If we do not love we do not have the love of God. (Something along those lines...sorry I can't quote the scripture right now).
2006-12-14 12:52:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No.
What's funny is that many people who "love God" are raving lunatics who feel that to release my soul to be judged is a good idea. While it will only send me back around again and curse the murderer to a thousand horribly murderous deaths of his/her own, it's still a downer to know that compassion only extends to people who worship that zealot's flavour of God.
I grew up in a church my parents didn't attend (they had Sunday brunch while my sisters and I were bussed to church) and I believed in God and God's Love. I loved Jesus, loved my friends, loved my family. Do you know what I learned from my early education? People screw you over when you're like that, and if you feel sad about it, you are cursed to Hell. People who are supposed to be good and loving teach you that unconditional love is foolish, that you HAVE to judge others and find them wanting.
I don't believe in God like I did (I'm neutral about God -- if God exists then God does. I haven't seen you, and personally I am neutral whether or not you are who you say you are, therefore you may or may not exist in this incarnation.) I believe that one can have love and/or compassion. I don't love murderers, but I have compassion that s/he made a mistake. That said, I have more compassion for his victim's family and do not want to see him/her out on the street to do it again.
2006-12-14 13:00:26 · answer #7 · answered by Jess B 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, if we love God, we will want to love His children, because they are His.
Charity, the pure love of Christ, is a gift from God by grace:
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/12/36#36
2006-12-14 12:51:34 · answer #8 · answered by drshorty 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To receive His love is to truly know love, and the only way to really love others is through His love.
2006-12-14 15:35:39 · answer #9 · answered by Hope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. One can love people in general or as individuals no matter what their belief in God might be. The knowledge and understanding gained by loving God and His teachings might enhance that love and give it greater direction.
2006-12-14 12:52:32 · answer #10 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋