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1 | Obedience in Love? | Lev 19:18 | jeremiah1five | 241683 | ||
Obedience in Love? Are we doing it right? Here is the original command: Leviticus 19:17-18 (KJV) 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. Leviticus, the book of Holiness and Righteousness of God. God gives His Holy Word to a Holy and peculiar people. He doesn't give His Holy Word to dogs (unbelievers/non-Covenant.) The original command of God is for the children of Israel to love the children of Israel. The language clearly states "Thou shalt not hate thy brother (member of the same tribe) in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour (member of another tribe), and not suffer sin upon him. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people (member of any tribe), but thou shalt love thy neighbour (member of one of the other eleven tribes) as thyself: I am the LORD. God even commanded the children of Israel to "not mingle with the heathens nor learn their ways," but they didn't obey. When Christ came He was sent to Israel. He was the fulfillment of many Prophecies and Promises God gave to Israel, and when He arrived He upheld the original command of God given in Leviticus 19:18. Christ did not change the Law. He established it. And yet I see and read everywhere Christians take in the heresy that we are supposed to love everyone, that Christ came and changed the Law by His words in Matthew, and we are to love everyone especially when God doesn't love everyone. Are you one that loves the world (worldly people) and the things of the world (things in creation)? |
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2 | Obedience in Love? | Lev 19:18 | EdB | 241697 | ||
To love or to show love to sinner does not require us to agree, accept or tolerate the sin. Loving a sinner does not mean we love his sin or the world the sinner lives in. Math 5:44 tells us to love our enemies. Sinners by definition are enemies of God and all those that love God. |
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3 | Obedience in Love? | Lev 19:18 | jeremiah1five | 241702 | ||
So, you are saying that Christ changed the Law in Leviticus 19:18 to include the unsaved. We are to love those not in Covenant with God? That is to contradict the original command of God and to teach Jesus changed the Law. | ||||||
4 | Obedience in Love? | Lev 19:18 | EdB | 241711 | ||
I do not see how Lev 19:18 and Mt 5:44 produce a conflict for you. No where in the Leviticus passage did it say hate you enemy. That seemed to be added by man, and Jesus pointed out God never said hate your enemy. | ||||||
5 | Obedience in Love? | Lev 19:18 | jeremiah1five | 241712 | ||
There are many things the Word does not say implicitly that are and have become doctrine for the Church. An example is the Doctrine of the Trinity. It doesn't say in Scripture God is a Trinity but it does imply it through the comparison of Scripture and reason (Isa. 1:18). If God hates His enemies (the world - which means non-Covenant individuals) will you commit treason to your King and love that which God hates? 1 John 2:15 is a perfect example. God doesn't love the non-Covenant world, those to whom in His perfect wisdom and knowledge did not choose from the foundation of the world, and He directly commands His people to not love the world (non-Covenant people) as He commanded Israel to not mingle with the nations (goyim) nor to learn THEIR WAYS. A true believer does not contradict God nor oppose Him in any of His revealed Word. I suppose you also believe God loves everyone the same as He does His Church? If you say yes, God does loves everyone, Covenant and non-Covenant alike, then the question now is who are these people Christ is destroying at His second coming when He comes in God's wrath and righteousness and warring against the wicked? Is He destroying those He loves? That is NOT the love of God as Scripture declares it. God hates both sin and sinner if that sinner is not Elect of God and whose name is not in the book of life of the lamb slain from (BEFORE) the foundation (creation) of the world. Consider not loving that which God hates, nor hating that which God loves. To do so is to oppose God. |
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6 | Obedience in Love? | Lev 19:18 | EdB | 241716 | ||
For God so loved the world He sent his only Begotten Son. Before Christ we all were sinners yet God loved us enough to send His Son to die for us. Jesus loved us enough to go to the cross for us. If we meet a sinner and treat them with hate we are doing just the opposite of what Jesus did when he met with sinners. He even dined with them. If God hated sinner then none of us would have been saved through an act of love. Again loving the sinner is not loving the sin or even accepting or tolerating the sin. |
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7 | Obedience in Love? | Lev 19:18 | jeremiah1five | 241721 | ||
I did not say we are to treat them with hate, only that we should be obedient and not treat them with love. God's love is Holy. The command is to not give that which is holy to dogs (non-Covenant.) The command is for brethren to love brethren. God doesn't give His Holy Love to non-Covenant. Not even God casts His Pearl, Jesus Christ, to swine. Neither should we. God hates the unatoned sinner. It is this people that Christ comes to destroy. And He is successful, too. Thank God. If you want to continue to love that which God hates that's on you. But for thousands of years God did not send the high priest to the heathens to pray and offer sacrifices for them. Think of the millions that God did not save nor atone and then tell me God loves all people the same. There have always been two groups of people in the world: Covenant and non-Covenant. |
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