Gospel of John, Chapter 13, verse 34 - "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another"
To love as Jesus displayed love requires Christians to be people of mercy and grace towards everyone; regardless of their faith, or lack of faith. True Christianity is serious about caring for others more than themselves. If more of us who claim Christ would just obey His commandment; this would be a better place; for loving one another, putting their lives ahead of our own would be a place where "hatred" would be virtually non existent.
2007-03-12 08:20:48 · 10 answers · asked by pastork 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Until you know God's love on the inside, personally you really can't love anyone. You can try but the scripture teaches that Christian love is letting God love or Christ love through us. A huge problem in the Christian world today is NOT KNOWING GOD"S LOVE PERSONALLY. This is what the apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesians in Ephesians 3:14 -19.
This world would be a better place if we let Christ live His life through us more but it wouldn't be perfect! Hatred would still exsist. If you don't have Christ in you, you can't help but sin and hate. It's because of our fallen human nature.
(Matter of fact, some hatred is good. To hate evil is good - it's Godly! And we Christians need to hate in that respect - hate evil.) We shouldn't hate evildoers.
But I've been treated unkindly and unlovingly because of my "lack of faith" I lost some long time "friends" because I didn't have enough faith to be healed of an illness when they thought I should have. That hurt. But God loved me through others and enabled me to forgive them.
I have realized that if my faith isn't leading me to a life of love than something is wrong!
2007-03-12 08:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What love? How many times have I heard Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart or John Hagee condemning other people in a very hateful tone? Perhaps what you mean by love is that it is fine to love anybody who is a member of your mutual admiration society, but everybody can forget it.
2007-03-12 08:30:29 · answer #2 · answered by SB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know what, go read the bible from cover to cover, all the way through.
You will see how wrong this is.
I could take quotes from Mein Kampf to show that Hitler was a good, kind and loving person, you have to read through the whole book to get the real picture.
So go do it, you'll be an agnostic in no time.
2007-03-12 08:26:47 · answer #3 · answered by Mike K 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Love is a necessary aspect of true Christianity, and Christianity without love is not true Christianity. On the other hand, a simplistic "just love everybody, I'm OK, you're OK" approach, without reference to objective truth or justice, is not true Christianity either. Pagans can love one another. Their problem is that they do not have the truth which sets men free.
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2007-03-12 08:30:37 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christians change the meaning of "True Christian" every few years. It was "truely Christian" to be a part of the crusades, or oppose them, burn heretics, or hide them, kill Jews, or save them.
Your deity of choice defined his people as whoever believed in him.
At least his definition, unlike that of "True Christian," has not seemed to change.
2007-03-12 08:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love huh? Let see... "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". That sound familiar? It should, its in the bible.
That's loving?
Or how about the support the bible gives for discrimination against the homosexual community? Thats loving?
Sorry but your bible isn't loving, Christianity isn't loving, and your god isn't loving.
2007-03-12 08:26:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's one of the more respectable passages from the New Testament. Too bad it isn't all like that.
2007-03-12 08:32:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes! Good point Pastor K!
2007-03-12 08:26:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love is the law of liberty.
2007-03-12 08:24:40 · answer #9 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God Bless You. God is Love. Love Everybody.
2007-03-12 08:23:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋