love is the key, relentless, passionate, unflinching love. perfect love drives out fear. theology is nothing without acts of love, random or planned, and they can be done my anyone, at any time, whatever their professed faith. this is all we are called to do, just to love with everything that we have. and when we screw up, to dust ourselves down and try again. nothing else matters. love is everything.
...and the response to 'hating evil' (or deploring injustice, or being shocked by inequality) should be to love all the more and to refuse to be reduced to fear.
well, common sense partly! i don't want to pretend to know jesus' mind, but it seems to me that he just loved, non-stop, in the face of aggression and judgementalism, in the face of people who thought he was an idiot, or a threat to their positions of power, in the face of poverty.
all the things that often reduce normal human beings like us to anger or fear he just rose above. yes, we're told he overturned the tables in the temple in anger - because people were making a fast buck out of religion, but i believe he was motivated by a desire to see people's true God-given identity flourish = because of his deep, unceasing love for them - including the people who were misusing the temple.
none of us truly have the love thing perfected, but the potential to love and be loved is a gift given to each of us and i think we have to throw ourselves into love, to live it as best we can and trust that we'll be carried by the One who loves us.
word sound and powerrrrrrrrrr!!!!
beanmoon 2 years ago
I don't say it's right i say it's BS
Sacke1985 3 years ago
1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the LOVE of GOD perfected:
Love is not an emotion, love is action. Keeping the word and HIS commandments the love of GOD is perfected.
JESUS is GOD, to get a sense of the SAVIOUR, you have to know his word. (read the old testament)
theblackcrusaders 3 years ago
love is the key, relentless, passionate, unflinching love. perfect love drives out fear. theology is nothing without acts of love, random or planned, and they can be done my anyone, at any time, whatever their professed faith. this is all we are called to do, just to love with everything that we have. and when we screw up, to dust ourselves down and try again. nothing else matters. love is everything.
verityandstu 3 years ago
But the BIBLE also tells you to hate evil.
theblackcrusaders 3 years ago
...and the response to 'hating evil' (or deploring injustice, or being shocked by inequality) should be to love all the more and to refuse to be reduced to fear.
verityandstu 3 years ago
Where do you get your logic?
theblackcrusaders 3 years ago
well, common sense partly! i don't want to pretend to know jesus' mind, but it seems to me that he just loved, non-stop, in the face of aggression and judgementalism, in the face of people who thought he was an idiot, or a threat to their positions of power, in the face of poverty.
verityandstu 3 years ago
all the things that often reduce normal human beings like us to anger or fear he just rose above. yes, we're told he overturned the tables in the temple in anger - because people were making a fast buck out of religion, but i believe he was motivated by a desire to see people's true God-given identity flourish = because of his deep, unceasing love for them - including the people who were misusing the temple.
verityandstu 3 years ago
none of us truly have the love thing perfected, but the potential to love and be loved is a gift given to each of us and i think we have to throw ourselves into love, to live it as best we can and trust that we'll be carried by the One who loves us.
verityandstu 3 years ago
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TwoOliveTrees 3 years ago
fun fact- the bible says that bats are birds!
Divilly69 3 years ago
please these things are half our own doing and the other half has been happening for hunderd or even thousandes of years.
Try not to explain something that is obvius with a book that is incomplete, subjectified, censorred and more then 2000 years old.
Sacke1985 3 years ago
Just because it's been going on for years doesn't make it right. (ie slaver, pedophilia, rape)
theblackcrusaders 3 years ago
what do you think the 'abomination of desolation' of Matthew 24:15 is?
as it was the last sign to the Israelites in Judea... will it not be the last sign in our time?
lazbo4174 3 years ago 3
Luke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
theblackcrusaders 3 years ago