U r saved
by loving your neighbor as yourself no matter what u profess.
We can «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God» only
by loving our neighbor as ourselves, with God's help.
I'm ready to break out of the prison of isolation
by loving my neighbors as myself.
Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person)
by loving our neighbor as ourselves.
Because all people do not respond to the preaching of the gospel and its concomitant call to discipleship, however, the gospel itself demands that Christians both encourage society to» «make serious and positive use of the social theories» of Jesus Christ and the Scriptures,» and help society to heal social injustices
by loving our neighbors as ourselves.21 Toward this end, the church must first of all proclaim to the world the Bible's perfect rule not only for faith but also for practice.
Not exact matches
The great thing about Jesus» teachings is that all of the laws and commandments from the Bible, many of which you just posted, will be followed
by someone who
loves God with all of their heart, all of their mind and all of their soul; and if they
love their
neighbor as themselves.
Now, Job after his bought with «pride» he ask YHWH for his forgiveness, and was later blessed with more sons and daughters who did the law, who were good children and an even better wife, and he lived for four generations of his children and their children, and died a very happy and fulfilled life, knowing that all of his family was left with
love, and peace and togetherness among each other, now this is true life, living righteously and wholesome
by ourselves and
by others around us is what we are all suppose to live like, caring for your
neighbors faithfully, and all be
as one now not after it is too late but now we need the law of righteousness from YHWH, the 10 commandments, the sabbath, a day of rest, and the passover to remember the ones who died innocently, and to remember the freedom of our lives given
by YHWH and do good
by one another and not let each other fall, right now is what we need in this world today people.
I mean, can't we adopt a strategy that focuses on the «
love for one another» that fulfills / focuses on the mandate of «
love our
neighbor» — which is impled and stated
by both Jesus and Paul
as of most importance.
If you
love your
neighbor as yourself and prove it
by your actions then you are righteous.
The number one rule given
by your prophet was to
love your
neighbors as you
love yourself, so
by leading in example he would
love his enemies.
The true and only God moral has been brought
by Jesus and can be summed up in this law: «
Love Your
Neighbor as Yourself»
By verse 14 something very weird happens «For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, «YOU SHALL
LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.».
One might paraphrase the version of the summary of the law
as actually understood
by many representatives of modern Western theology
as «Thou shalt
love thy
neighbor with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength.
The motivation behind this vast global work centers on the simple charge given
by Jesus so many years ago to «
love thy
neighbor as thyself.»
Therefore, the justified Christian man, in himself and of his own nature a sinner but not seen
as a sinner
by God, brings forth those good works which consist in the
love of God and
neighbor, not slavishly to win any reward but gladly, that service which is perfect freedom.»
That is, we no longer follow the customary laws of the Old Testament, but the Royal Law (a word also used
by Aristotle)
as referenced in James 2, that to
love your
neighbor as yourself is the whole of it?
Hence, Jesus says «
Love your
neighbor as yourself» (Matthew 19:19; Mark 12:31); and «
By this will they know you are my disciples» (John 13:35).
As Carl Dudley writes, «When church size is measured
by human relationships, the small church is the largest expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In which to
love God and
neighbor.
Loving one's
neighbor as Jesus tells us to do is often the standard
by which the world recognizes those who follow Jesus.
But the Bible would tell her to
Love your
neighbor as yourself and should would not be honoring that
by hurting you.
This principle of
neighbor love is recognized
by both Jesus and Paul
as the summary and essence of the entire Jewish law.
In fact there seems to be a few things that the bible says we have been saved
by... Jesus (Romans 5:9), grace and faith, (Ephesians 2:8) believing (mark 16:16), confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing Jesus was raised from the dead
by God (Romans 10:9),
Love God and your
Neighbor (Luke 10:25 - 28), repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10), baptism (1 Peter 3:21), Endurance (Matthew 24:13), works (which is best described
as actions and not good deeds)(James 2:24) and obeying (Matthew 7:21).
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Love is not deified,
as it typically was
by Israel's
neighbors.
MARY & PAUL You lied or at least showed ur ignorance
by calling «
love thy
neighbor as thyself» Christ's Golden Rule.
Yes, I heartily agree that,
as you say, we are «perfectly
loved the same every day
by God and Jesus,» even if we don't attend five Bible studies every week, or understand Jesus» admonition to «
love your
neighbor.»
And so,
as an evangelical, I am deeply invested in my faith, at both a personal and communal level, and I believe that all scripture is inspired
by God and useful for teaching, challenging, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that people faith are equipped to
love God and their
neighbors.
As the just person lives by faith, says Augustine, so the association of just men and women lives by faith active in love, the love by which one loves God alone and one's neighbor as onesel
As the just person lives
by faith, says Augustine, so the association of just men and women lives
by faith active in
love, the
love by which one
loves God alone and one's
neighbor as onesel
as oneself.
in other words to acknowledge and serve only the One True Creator, and secondly to
love our
neighbor as ourselves... in other words to do good (
by the righteousness of God) to others
as to oneself.
Even without acknowledging God, the atheist in this article feels and knows that it is good to work for charitable efforts like helping the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fight cancer... for
by doing so we live out «
love your neighbor as yourself» and by following this commandment from God — Jesus Christ's summary of the Law — we experience «God is Love.&ra
love your
neighbor as yourself» and
by following this commandment from God — Jesus Christ's summary of the Law — we experience «God is
Love.&ra
Love.»
It is my belief that to some extent he did share it, though he transformed it
by an emphasis on the mercy
as well
as the judgment of God and on the
love of God and
neighbor as the criterion for God's moral demands.
Over and over again, the Bible highlights how we
as Christians should treat the immigrant (
by striving to
love them and treating them
as our
neighbor).
Matthew adds another commandment not in the Decalogue (Lev 19:18), «You shall
love your
neighbor as yourself,» given later
by Jesus
as the second greatest commandment in the law (Mk 12:31 and parallels).
By your definition, the greatest commandment is to
love God with all yout heart, and to
love your
neighbor as yourself, then you say that
loving God means keeping His commandments.
Then I met Jesus, and I'm still sick, addicted, broke, depressive, divorced and suicidal, but I'm beginning to
love my
neighbors more
as myself, little
by little, in spite of all my pains and the anxieties.
Who, finally, is my
neighbor, the companion whom I am commanded to
love as myself or
as I have been
loved by my most loyal
neighbor, the companion whose
love is also promised me
as mine is promised him?
Instead, this highest commandment is clearly defined, addressed to the will of man,
by the second, «
Love your
neighbor as yourself.»
Love of the
neighbor is shown not only
by the way a disciple lives, which we shall consider first, but also,
as we shall see in the second section of the chapter,
by the combined efforts of the followers of Jesus to meet human need and, third,
by attempts to change the structures of society.
The Lord then continues with the Parable and shows us
by it that the
neighbor you are to «
love as yourself» is the person who treats you like a brother regardless of what genetic family he belongs to (the Samaritan's were not considered true Jews).
What then is
love and what do we mean
by God and
by neighbor when we speak of the ultimate purpose of Church, and so of theological education,
as the increase of
love of God and
neighbor among men?
It is about our learning to be approached
by our Victim, who is forgiving us, moving toward us, nudging us out of our excitements and false identities into the quiet, gentle bliss of recognizing ourselves
as loved and of
loving our
neighbors as ourselves.
He begins
by reminding his correspondents that the whole law can be summed up in the commandment «Thou shalt
love thy
neighbor as thyself.»
There was a Talmudic - era rabbi
by the name of Akiva ben Joseph (who argued plenty with another rabbi, Simeon ben Azzai) who argued that the greatest commandment in all of the Torah was to
love your
neighbor as yourself (to which ben Azzai objected primarily due to
neighbor not being clear enough and then said that the greatest commandment was within Genesis 5:1 — that man was created in G - d's image and thus if you hate any person, you are hating G - d).
The Letter of James, easily ignored
by evangelicals following Luther's denunciation of the book
as «straw,» speaks of the reciprocity of covenant life:» «You shall
love your
neighbor as yourself»... Draw near to God and he will draw near to you» (2:8; 4:8).
Were the command of
neighbor -
love expressed otherwise than
by the little phrase «
as yourself,» which is so easy to grasp and yet has the reach of eternity, the command could not so master self -
love.
But whereas Ark Encounter aims to fulfill this mission
by drawing people in through its turnstiles, I tend to think we experience and share God's presence best when we weep with those who weep, care for the orphans and the widows, and
love our
neighbors as ourselves.
They wrote: «We don't blame him for despising his very existence, since he is DIRECTLY and PERSONALLY responsible for thrusting terrible violence upon every other gender (all of them), race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and religion... even though
by all accounts he's a good guy who works hard, takes care of his family, tries his best to
love his
neighbor as himself, and all that other stuff that doesn't matter because we only regard him
as part of a collective group to which we assign blame.»
Buddhist literature contains wonderful examples of
love for the enemy,
as in the story of King Long - Sufferer, who, with his wife, was cut to pieces
by the
neighboring King Brahmadatta.
We can all escape the penalty of sin
by asking the Lord for forgiveness and
loving our
neighbors as ourselves.
When it dominates, the understanding of God that is the aim of theological schooling is basically an understanding
by way of contemplation
as one is empowered for that
by loving one's
neighbor and God.
Insofar
as it is genuine church - thinking it is distinctly different from all intellectual activity guided
by love of self or
love of
neighbor - without - God, or of intellect itself, or of knowledge for its own sake — if there is such a
love.