Obeying
d laws of love whether u r Christian or not will mean grace n thus salvation will be given.
I could hear in it the echo of youthful Sunday school lessons on the superiority of the New Testament's
law of love over the Old Testament's rule of vengeance.
To Jesus, the good news God had commissioned him to announce was the
higher law of love, and its expression was an indispensable requirement of entrance into the kingdom of God.
The teachers of the law, the Pharisees and Sadducees turned God's
law of love into legalistic rules and regulations.
They will say they are no longer required to follow Mosaic law and now follow
Christs law of loving your neighbor & loving your God, though how they reconcile loving their neighbor if their bull killed the neighbor I'll never know.
This is not some Christian form of Sharia Law, where we force Christian morality on everyone else, but is instead a gospel -
based law of love where all are treated with dignity, equality, and respect, regardless of how they think, believe, or behave.
If one generation of children were to be educated with this
natural law of love and unity as the basis for all decisions, approaches, and mentalities, just imagine the impact.
the only law the christian has to keep now is
THE LAW OF LOVE» Love the Lord thy god with all thy heart, with your soul and mind, Love your neighbor as you love yourself.»
Our only law is
the law of love, and that is achieved through God himself.
Sex when
the law of love is broken... that is where God chooses not to remain silent.
Ok, I got ta ask, especially in light of some of the comment threads we've had, is this cartoon in the spirit of
the law of love?
Of course I do not believe sex is sinful in any way unless one is violating
the law of love in the act.
Sex outside of marriage period... not defined as sinful unless
the law of love is being broken.
Jesus declared
the law of love supreme.
The standard of
the law of love (Golden Rule if you prefer) is a very high standard of ethical behavior.
As
the law of love becomes greater and greater in its significance in my thinking I find less and less need to resolve the specifics on any given issue.
It is really more of a point that the bible neither endorses nor precludes sex outside of marriage, rather there is no apparent need to promote an absolute position at all outside of deference to
the law of love.
All of us, whether we read the Bible, or not, or do not hear it from someone sent, still have a conscience placed in our being by God by which we know him and
his law of love.
Just like with anything in our lives... the ONLY guiding principle is
the law of love.
As I said... God does not appear to have been or be concerned about our sexuality outside of when our hearts are wrong and we are violating
the law of love.
It is not about the old covenant law VPM — It is about the only law remaining...
the law of love.
For both Jesus and Paul, the only law is
the law of love, and that is a «law» that can not be imposed or commanded.
What if
your law of love and my law of love clash.
That is why Paolo and Francesca, the two adulteresses who inhabit the outer ring of Dante's inferno, still cling together like doves, appealing to
the law of love, «which absolves no one from loving.»
I do not believe God is overly concerned with sex outside of when it is abusive or in violation of the principles of
the law of love.
Jesus was abundantly clear in that
the law of love is to be our guiding principle in life, and even stated that when kept we have not violated the law.
As one of the key principles in
the law of love is to do no harm... I came to the conclusion that my former view failed that test.
The only principle that is involved in sexual love is the «
law of love», says Gary.
Is not
the law of love more important than the laws of biology?
When Catherine wrote the Constitution for our Apostolate, she placed at the beginning
the law of love, for «the primary work of the Apostolate is that we love one another... This is the greatest work of the Apostolate.
Building on Paul Tillich's teaching that «
the law of love is the ultimate law,» Fletcher cited Augustine's invitation to «love and do what you will.»
The Law of Love transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.
When Jesus gave
us the law of love it freed us from the need to live by some specific written code and made our only standard the standard of love.
Finally, Jesus was concerned with politics and economy...
the law of love is to permeate all facets of life.
Considering how much of a direct violation of
the law of love this is... I would think you would be willing to, AT THE VERY LEAST, honestly evaluate the case for acceptance of the GLBT community.