Will all people ever love one another?

Question

So much fighting and hatred towards people of different races and hostility.

Answer 1

Love of Neighbor Has Grown Cold

MILLIONS feel lost and miserable, with nowhere to turn. A retired businesswoman observed: 'One evening a widow who lives on my floor knocked on my door and said she was lonely. I told her politely but bluntly that I was busy. She apologized for bothering me and left.'

Sadly, that very night, the widow committed suicide. Afterward, the businesswoman said that she had learned a "hard lesson."

Lack of neighbor love is often tragic. During ethnic conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, formerly part of Yugoslavia, over a million were forced from their homes and tens of thousands were killed. By whom? "Our neighbors," lamented a girl who had been driven from her village. "We knew them."

In Rwanda hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered, often by their own neighbors. "Hutu and Tutsi [lived] together, intermarrying, not caring or not even knowing who was a Hutu and who a Tutsi," reported The New York Times. "Then something snapped," and "the killings began."

Similarly, Jews and Arabs in Israel live side by side, but many hate one another. The situation is the same with many Catholics and Protestants in Ireland and growing numbers of peoples in other countries. Never before in history has the world been so lacking in love.

Why Has Love of Neighbor Cooled Off?

Our Creator gives the answer. His Word, the Bible, calls the time in which we live "the last days." This is a period during which, Bible prophecy says, people would have "no natural affection." Regarding these "critical times hard to deal with," also called in the Scriptures "the conclusion of the system of things," Jesus Christ foretold that "the love of the greater number will cool off."-2 Timothy 3:1-5; Matthew 24:3, 12.

Today's lack of love, therefore, is part of the evidence that we are living in the last days of this world. Happily, it also means that this world of ungodly people will soon be replaced by a righteous new world ruled by love.-Matthew 24:3-14; 2 Peter 2:5; 3:7, 13.

But do we really have reason to believe that such a change is possible-that all people can learn to love one another and to live together at peace with one another?

Love of Neighbor-A Reality

"Who really is my neighbor?" a first-century lawyer asked Jesus. No doubt he expected Jesus to say, 'Your fellow Jews.' But in a story about a neighborly Samaritan, Jesus showed that people of other nationalities also are our neighbors.-Luke 10:29-37; John 4:7-9.

Jesus emphasized that, next to love of God, love of neighbor should govern our lives. (Matthew 22:34-40) But has any group of people ever truly loved their neighbors? Early Christians did! They were noted for the love they had for others.-John 13:34, 35.

What about today? Is Christlike love practiced by anybody? The Encyclopedia Canadiana observes: "The work of Jehovah's Witnesses is the revival and re-establishment of the primitive Christianity practised by Jesus and his disciples . . . All are brothers."

What does that mean? It means that Jehovah's Witnesses allow nothing-neither race, nationality, nor ethnic background-to cause them to hate their neighbors. Nor will they kill anyone, for they have figuratively beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. (Isaiah 2:4) The Witnesses, in fact, are noted for taking the initiative to help their neighbors.-Galatians 6:10.

No wonder an editorial in California's Sacramento Union noted: "Suffice it to say that if all the world lived by the creed of the Jehovah Witnesses there would be an end of bloodshed and hatred, and love would reign as king." A writer in Hungary's Ring magazine remarked: "I have come to the conclusion that if Jehovah's Witnesses were the only ones living on the earth, wars would cease to exist, and the only duties of the policemen would be to control traffic and to issue passports."

Admittedly though, a huge, worldwide change will be needed if all people are to love one another. How will that change come? (Please see the back page.)

When All People Will Love One Another

A prayer Jesus Christ taught shows that a dramatic change is at hand. In his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught us to pray: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."-Matthew 6:10, King James Version.

What is God's Kingdom? It is a real government, one that rules from heaven. That is why it is called "the kingdom of the heavens." Jesus, the "Prince of Peace," has been appointed by his Father to be its ruler.-Matthew 10:7; Isaiah 9:6, 7; Psalm 72:1-8.

When God's Kingdom comes, what will happen to this hate-filled world? "The kingdom," will "crush and put an end" to all the corrupt governments of this world. (Daniel 2:44) The Bible explains: "The world is passing away . . . , but he that does the will of God remains forever."-1 John 2:17.

Concerning God's new world, the Bible says: "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it." (Psalm 37:9-11, 29; Proverbs 2:21, 22) What a glorious time that will be! "Death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore." (Revelation 21:4) Even dead ones will live again, and the entire earth will be transformed into a literal paradise.-Isaiah 11:6-9; 35:1, 2; Luke 23:43; Acts 24:15.

To live in God's new world, we must love one another, even as God teaches us to do. (1 Thessalonians 4:9) An Oriental Bible student said: "I look forward to the time when, as the Bible promises, all people will have learned to love one another." And we can be sure that God will keep his promises! "I have even spoken it," he says, "I shall also do it."-Isaiah 46:11.

But to enjoy the blessings under God's Kingdom, you must take in Bible knowledge, as millions of honesthearted people worldwide are doing. (John 17:3)

Answer 2

I know how you feel. At times, I loose faith in humanity but I never loose my faith in God. Even if your the last person on earth amongst all of this, the little bit that you do to make the world better counts towards ending the fighting and hatred. And when you stand before God He will remmember.

Answer 3

In a perfect world yes but unfortunately too many ppl today would much rather have nothing but hate in their hearts just b/c people are different from them instead of respecting everyone's nationality or beliefs.

Answer 4

Boy, I sure hope not. That would drive me insane. It sounds creepy too. I'd much rather want a world where people learn to live with self-responsibility. "Love All" only works in tennis.

Answer 5

only people can stop hatred. and they have to work on it. it will never just go away. god will not take away or keep away all of the haters. he will let them do whatever. but if people stop discriminating for stupid reasons such as skin color or religion or ethnicity, there will never be peace.

Answer 6

Its not what nature intended. Look outside, the squirrels in the trees fight, the plants fight, the bugs fight, the coral fight everything fights. In order to become fully peaceful we must stop being greedy which will also never happed so yeah.

Answer 7

Not until evolution leaves the religious nuts behind in the dust. Without religion and nationality issues, there'd be no barrier to TRULY loving one's neighbor as oneself.

Answer 8

Not until the end of Human governments as we know them.
There will be a day and I think we should pray for it.

Answer 9

I seriously doubt it.

But African Americans did not start this fire.

Racist white people have to change their attitudes, if they want peace. Until then I say war!

Answer 10

No, there are already grudges, hostility in the world, i really think its impossible

Answer 11

Yes! We will live in harmony after the war of Armageddon. Rev 21:4