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NASB | John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 13:34 "I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. |
Bible Question:
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. |
Bible Answer: 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 |