2007-02-27 14:41:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's easy to love your friends, those who love you. It takes effort to love those who don't love you, or even hate you.
2007-02-27 14:45:54 · answer #1 · answered by David S 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Interesting question! You are implying that, if we are to love indiscriminately everyone, then love loses its validity, its specialness. To offer a counter view, I suggest that there are differing types of love (e.g., romantic, platonic, familial, etc.). We can not love all humanity in exactly the same way, obviously. Certainly, global loving among human beings would seem to be preferable to our current situation in which illogical abhorrence prevails; still, universal love is probably an impossible dream. Everyone has numerous annoying personality flaws which repel the love of their compatriots; project such characteristics onto a global scale, and you will note how difficult it might be to love our fellow humans unconditionally. Of course, it is perhaps easier to love at a distance than to accept without rejection the flaws of those with whom you must interact upon a daily basis!
2007-02-27 15:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is not something to be quantified in the first place! While it may be placed the highest good/virtue/value, there is simply no way to value it. If you can love everyone, even your enemies, then you have obeyed one of the greatest commandments ever, which is to love your neighbour as yourself.
2007-02-27 14:50:32 · answer #3 · answered by Seraph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is an enemy really? Its basically someone that has wronged us in some way and we cannot forgive. So without forgiveness there is no love. As hard as it is I have chosen to forgive. And so the gift and value of LOVE is inmeasurable. It spills over onto other relationships in my life.
2007-02-27 14:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by lynjen31 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well true divine love is what Jesus taught us. We are reach for that level of love in our life. I truly do not have any enemies. I refuse to hate because when I truly love as He taught us, it makes life more peaceful. That is the value of divine love for me.
2007-02-27 14:47:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
PRICELESS...Loving each and every one of God's creations is priceless. It takes a mature believer to look past the bad and see the good that God has placed within each of His creations. Loving everyone shows respect for what God has made. That does not mean we accept or tolerate everything they do...just means we are patient, self controlled, and kind toward them until change takes place.
2007-02-27 15:12:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is easy to love our friend and family, no doubt, it take a lot of work and effort to love stranger and enemies.
However, as for me, a true definition of love is to have unconditional love, love them as they are, even to our enemies. As one of my friend say, you love a person doesn't mean you agree what he/she do, but you just wish that they will be happy.
2007-02-27 14:56:28 · answer #7 · answered by dora_chan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different types of love. First, recognize the difference of trating domeone with love and actually loving them . Second, you love your relatives different than your spouse just the same as you love your friends differently than them. Lastly, hatred may make love seem better because it is in such stark contrast but the more love you have the deeper it will be.
2007-02-27 14:46:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are taught to have faith, hope and love. Love is the greatest of all three, as faith and hope will fail for one can have faith and hope and sin; however, love can never fail because you can't love and sin. Love covers a multitude of sin, as the Apostle Peter taught.
2007-02-27 15:36:24 · answer #9 · answered by fritzz_ezz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
--There are degrees of love & hate. For instance the Bible refers to :
--Agape'--principled love which would include loving our enemies--in that we would not do anything to harm them, help them if we could.
--Fe'los or affectionate love, for good friends etc.
Also as to hate, the expression has the flexibility to love someone less. Note what Jesus said:
(Luke 14:25-26) “25 Now great crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and said to them: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own soul, he cannot be my disciple.”
--The hate here is that we love someone less, for Jesus would not advocate hating our loved ones, to any harmful nature!
2007-02-27 14:58:10 · answer #10 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Torah says in Leviticus, dont avenge, dont keep hatred on your heart, and love your neighbor as you love yourself, i am the LORD.
This are the bases stated by God to love the others.
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2007-02-27 14:57:28 · answer #11 · answered by davidhaoman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋