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1 | You are saying that our command to...? | John 13:34 | Stultis the Fool | 128203 | ||
EdB... thank you for the reply! You wrote: "This is same junk John Lennon learned and picked up from his guru." The only verse in question is Romans 13:8-10. You are saying that our command to love is "junk." Perhaps what you mean to reply with is 1 John 3:18 "Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth." According to your train of thought ("love is an emotion, an attitude a motivator"), what wicked deed will a man who loves his neighbor just as Christ loves each of us be motivated to perpetrate? You wrote: "God does demand love but He also demands faith, obedience, service, action." I ask you to please provide scripture supporting this thought. Additionally, I challenge you to demonstrate an act of faith/obedience/service/action that a CHRISTIAN would perform that IS NOT motivated by love. Finally, if you feel as you do, disprove this statement from the above verses [Romans 13:8-10]: "Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law," and demonstrate the evil a loving person will perpetrate upon another whom he loves. I can find no such verse qualifying faith/obedience/service/action in the same capacity. |
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2 | You are saying that our command to...? | John 13:34 | srbaegon | 128227 | ||
Hello Stultis, You said: "I ask you to please provide scripture supporting this thought." I'm not sure which you meant, so I'll try to be thorough. Command to love: John 13:34 (ESV) "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another." Command to have faith: There isn't one that I know of, but the related command to believe is throughout Scripture. Command to obedience: John 3:36 (ESV) "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." Command to service: Gal 5:13 (ESV) For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Command to action: Gal 6:10 (ESV) So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith. Also you said: "Additionally, I challenge you to demonstrate an act of faith/obedience/service/action that a CHRISTIAN would perform that IS NOT motivated by love." Paul gave quite a list of those things that could be done without the motivation of love: 1 Cor 13:1-3 (ESV) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels...if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains...if I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned... Steve |
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3 | You are saying that our command to...? | John 13:34 | Xerxes | 128228 | ||
Whoa Steve, your quote of 1 Cor 13:1-3 is not being stated contextually, and I'm certain you know it. If he speaks in the tongues of men and of angels, if he has prophetic powers and understands all mysteries and all knowledge, if he has all faith so as to remove mountains, if he gives away all that he has, if he delivers up his body to burned ... "and has not love, then he is nothing!" Unless I'm misunderstanding the nature of your post, it seems you are disputing the inclusive superiority of love with a passage that is directly speaking to the superiority of love over everything else, leaving out the pertinent half of each passage that actually makes Stultis' point ... that everything we do should be done for love, and without love it's pointless, for we can be regular church goers, tongue speakers, prophets, great preachers, whole paycheck givers ... and if we don't have love, it's all for naught because we are nothing without it. I think Stultis makes a valid point. Xerxes |
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4 | You are saying that our command to...? | John 13:34 | srbaegon | 128231 | ||
Hello Xerxes, I believe you misunderstood my post. Stultis asked what things a Christian could do without the motivation of love. I simply gave him the list recorded by the apostle Paul as what he himself could do without the motivation of love. In both great and small things, we can motivated by selfishness instead of love. Steve |
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5 | You are saying that our command to...? | John 13:34 | Xerxes | 128239 | ||
Ahhhh, okay. Gotcha Steve. Thanks for clarifying that. I hope I wasn't unintentionally harsh. I know I can be sometimes without meaning to be. Xerxes |
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