"Let us love one another,for love comes from god.Everyone who loves has been born of god and knows god.Whoever does not love does not know god,becuase god is love."
1John 4:7-8
2007-12-23 13:19:10 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i love that verse.
2007-12-23 13:23:16 · answer #1 · answered by karl k 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Just because atheists don't believe in any god doesn't mean that we don't share sympathies with the nobler aspirations found in some religions.
The problem is that many believers insist that such nobility can only come from god. Atheists know that we are the author of our own moral and ethical lives. We know that we are are responsible for taking care of our children and each other. We don't need a deity to encourage such action. And we feel better for it.
Another problem with quoting scripture is that it's a very mixed bag. Check out Leviticus or parts of Paul's teachings in the NT if you don't believe me. You have to separate the wheat from the chaff, so why bother with the dusty scriptures when you need to use your own moral compass in the end anyway?
2007-12-23 21:26:24 · answer #2 · answered by kwxilvr 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I completely disagree with that quote.
1. I don't love everyone. I think doing that diminishing the value of love and anyone claiming that the love everyone is a liar.
2. Love does come from any god, it comes from the hearts of humans. Saying "god is love" is an insult.
3. I do know love and I'm an atheist.
2007-12-23 21:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love, but I do not know God. So, I think that's a load of Christian bull, sorry.
My love don't come from an invisible sky critter.
2007-12-23 21:29:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prove that God is love.
2007-12-23 21:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So anyone who is not a Christian cannot love. That ahs got to be the biggest pile of sh** I have heard and I ahve heard alot of it on here.
Bright Blessings to each and all
Where is that Christian love?
Not with this idiot.
Merry Yule
2007-12-23 21:28:33 · answer #6 · answered by ghostwolf 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
That is my favourite bible quote, I always use it on my Valentine's Day cards, and I also write god in lowercase. I think more Christians should live by it. Too bad I hear the ones condemning homosexuals to hell more often....
Merry Xmas
2007-12-23 21:24:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
So now I can't love because I don't believe in fairy tales?
Sheesh. And I thought it was a free country. First you guys try to control who I love, then my reproductive system, and now my emotions entirely?!
Stupid.
2007-12-23 21:29:18 · answer #8 · answered by lonely suburbanite 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think that throwing bible quotes at non-believers is like yelling at the back of a deaf person. Neither makes much of an impression.
2007-12-23 21:23:38 · answer #9 · answered by link955 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Atheists are just as capable of love as any godist.
2007-12-23 21:25:45 · answer #10 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think it's literature.
And like all literature (good literature), it has meaning behind it.
And god's a character in a book.
and love is love.
2007-12-23 21:27:54 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋