2006-12-25 14:47:28 · 23 answers · asked by whoknows 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the bible it says...
1 John 4:20
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen
2006-12-25 14:54:33 · answer #1 · answered by aingelic1 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a believer in the sense that most people are, but i don't think is possible to love a god who we've never seen if we don't love people we see every day. The love of a person for God is an illusion, it is meaningless and miss understood on less it is worth some thing to some body. There's a word for those who practice some thing different than what they preach, hypocrisy. Someone who profess love for God but hate people it could only mean two things, that person is a hypocrite or just doesn't know what she's talking about. The type of love those high minded souls talk about when they speak of loving God, it is not really a love toward an invisible some thing out there with the purpose to gain some thing in this or any other imaginary life beyond, that's the way the little mankind loves. I believe the love for God is a love that shines like a bulb light in all direction.
2006-12-25 14:54:33 · answer #2 · answered by Simon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Read 1st John. You may naturally get mad at people but if you have hate in your heart you cannot be loving God at the same time. Also I believe in Matthew where Jesus says, "What you did for the least of these you did for me.... What you did not do for the least of these, you did not do for me". All of us are the children of God, and if we have utter hatred for another one, its just like hating God's son. Naturally he doesn't like that.
2006-12-25 15:06:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To love God and hate sin will work... not people. God takes a very dim view on that. The classic non sequitur.
2006-12-25 14:57:11 · answer #4 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you love God then you love His people
2006-12-25 14:52:42 · answer #5 · answered by devora k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.1 John 4:20 that aingelicl quoted is a good verse.
2006-12-25 15:06:21 · answer #6 · answered by skyler 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Might help if you narrowed the focus of your question to a specific religion or two.
But the basic answer is yes, when considering the irrationality of individuals and despite a particular religion's commandment to love everyone.
2006-12-25 14:51:05 · answer #7 · answered by TheSlayor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
faith has been the incentive for greater bloodshed than the different single reason. faith has in no way made absolutely everyone righteous and in no way will. that's in basic terms while we set up a relationship with Jesus Christ as our own Lord and Savior that we are able to be stored. this means that instead of following faith, we stick to our God. of path, relationships require 2-way communique, so determine to wish and seek for God's will by way of His Holy Spirit and the be conscious.
2016-10-18 23:53:23 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
1John 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
2006-12-25 15:00:02 · answer #9 · answered by Doug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians are taught to love God and people as much as you love yourself.
I am Christian and try hard, but I struggle with this one all the time. lol :o)
2006-12-25 14:57:04 · answer #10 · answered by BrutalBaby 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋