The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love... Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God... If someone says, «I love God» and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, can not
love God whom he has not seen.
A later New Testament writer put it quite strongly; «If anyone says, «I love God», and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, can not
love God whom he has not seen.»
John reinforced the significance of this second commandment by observing, «If any one says «I love God,» and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, can not
love God whom he has not seen (I John 4:20).
The first Epistle of John sounds the same note: «If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, can not
love God whom he hath not seen.»
how can
you love God whom you have not seen if you can't love your fellow man whom you have seen?
1Jn 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can
he love God whom he hath not seen?
If any one says, «I love God,» and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, can not
love God whom he has not seen.
As I John 4:10 says, «If a man says, «I love God», and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can
he love God whom he has not seen?»
it even says that anyone who says «I know God but hates his brother is a liar because how can
you love God whom you have not seen if you don't love those you do see.
In biblical terms we might cite I John 4:20: «He who does not love his brother whom he has seen, can not
love God whom he has not seen.»
This kind of internal contradiction seems to run through much traditional theology; it finds explicit expression in Luther's dichotomy between the terrible God, who put him not only in awe but in utter terror, and the tender and
loving God whom he knew in Jesus Christ as the savior, the loving friend, and the gracious Father of men.
Not exact matches
A true Biblicist reads the Bible to understand the message
God desires all to have, namely that He
loves people,
whom He has created, and how we can have a relationship to Him through His Son Jesus Christ.
How is it not logical for a believer not to teach his children
whom he / she
loves about the
God they believe in?
People need to understand the power they have within themselves, to
love themselves for
whom they are and for their fellow human beings, they don't need a crutch of a
god to do that.
'' For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from
whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the
love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of
God.
Judas was not to become a martyr because of the way the apostles wrote about him in the Gospel - they saw through the eyes of men, and Judas was unable to redeem himself before he died a natural death, dying instead loathed, hated & driven to suicide for his deed against the Son of
God, Jesus,
whom he had
Loved so much.
You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients
whom whom God of
love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the
love of
God — i.e. true
love which stems from
God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.
In fact, by failing to do so, you become a culprit by not probing their minds to make sure that whether they are aware of this biblical truth and hence being perished and away from that everlasting
love for eternity — and for this very reason and negligence or misguidance, you will be responsible and accountable when you meet with your creator
God of
love whom he also
loved you so much that if you were the only person living on the face of this earth and planet, still he would have come and died for you and the forgiveness of your since and
loving you unconditional.
It had unsavory associations with anti-immigration and even eugenic enthusiasms, and betrayed a distinct distaste for common people
whom, as Lincoln observed,
God must
love since he made so many of them.
Loving one another (family specifically) unconditionally and teaching
love by example is far more of a noble focus than spending much of our time obsessing over and trying to please a
god whom there is zero proof of existence.
For anyone who does not
love his brother,
whom he has seen, can not
love God,
whom he has not seen.
The best we can do is to remember the mystery that
God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person
whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our
loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.
and I think it also wrong that you who do not believe «trash» the way some of you do on my
God whom I know and
love, the
God who changed my world.
Everything we create, the mouths we feed, the sick for
whom we care, the environments we clean up, the children we nurture, the spouse you
love, the friends with
whom we weep and rejoice, the hard work at our jobs, the kindness we offer strangers, the art we make — it all matters, and not just for now, because everything you do for
God matters for eternity.
Dr. King chose a woman to be his wife who truly
loved people regardless of
whom they were as they are all
God's children.
I just want to testify, for those who are questioning or unsure about Calvinism, that it asserts a false and unlivable theology, teaching that
God loves only some, and cruelly punishes the rest,
whom he rendered unable to do good for — yep — not doing what he made them incapable of doing.
«Something» inside... dare I say the Holy Spirit (still praying and would never want to say something is a revelation from
God and it is not) is leading me to think it is a «big deal» and that these people
whom I
love are being led astray and spewing false doctrine that appeals to their own prideful proclivities and demeans others in the process.
The family is a school of virtue in which
God sets before us, day after day, one person or a few persons
whom we are to
love.
I have had some changes in my theology regarding church, and I now believe that we don't plant churches or go to church, but we ARE the church by
loving the people around us
whom God brings into our lives.
God becomes a reality
whom you know intimately, meet everyday, one whose strength becomes your strength, whose
love, your
love.
Christ's
love was life - giving because when human hearts opened up to Him for
whom they were made, the result was inevitably an increase in the life of the soul, a freeing from sin, the lightening of a burden, and the joy that comes from knowing you are close to
God, or that you are
loved by
God.
In those days I tried to think of myself as an atheist because I was pretty sure that the
God Christians proclaimed loathed me for my sins — my laziness, my incompetence, my general lack of faith, and most of all my lack of
love toward people in my life
whom I knew I was supposed to
love.
The mystery of creation and the history of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan of
Gods Wisdom and
Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship of Jesus Christ in
whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
The
God whom Christ reveals is one to
whom we can only gain access by
love.
It is a constant refrain in The Priest and His
Loving that the love of a priest for the Kingdom of God within and for the people to whom he is sent is the «most close to the loving of Christ Himself» (TPL p. 1, p. 5,
Loving that the
love of a priest for the Kingdom of
God within and for the people to
whom he is sent is the «most close to the
loving of Christ Himself» (TPL p. 1, p. 5,
loving of Christ Himself» (TPL p. 1, p. 5, p. 8).
Was he an enemy
whom one must
love in order to be a child of
God?
An absolutely powerful
God for
whom love is but one attribute among many is neither palatable nor biblical.
Because
God counts them to be partakers of sins of those
whom they defend,
loving rather the praise of men, then telling them the truth.
For
god so
loved the world that he said «I will destroy man
whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.»
This is striking at deep assumptions about
whom God loves.
This is the man to
whom God will manifest his
love.
The Yehudi extends this togetherness even to the sons of Satan,
whom God has made us capable of
loving:
In Christian worship prayer is a natural accompaniment because
God is conceived as a personal being, a
loving Father with
whom communication and response are not only a possibility but an appropriate expectation.
For Holloway, the Eucharist not only feeds the personal
love of
God as a living experience, it also engenders
love and care for others in the measure that we are conformed to the personality of Christ
whom we have received.
«However, if this
love were powerless, then it would not be
God, and if it were only one power among others, then it would not be the one
God from
whom and to
whom are all things and who alone can in all seriousness be called
God.»
This lovingkindness will also ultimately come to include the feeling of
love, for if a person really
loves God, he
loves every man
whom God loves as he becomes aware that
God does
love him.
That
love of
God which does not comprehend fear is really idolatry, the adoration of a god whom one has constructed onese
God which does not comprehend fear is really idolatry, the adoration of a
god whom one has constructed onese
god whom one has constructed oneself.
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from
whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the
love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of
God.
That purpose is that
God may be known and
loved, worshipped and served, in the Man Christ Jesus, in
whom he is made so vividly and poignantly plain to us, and that as a result he may fill our lives with his grace and conform us to his image.
What we can know and do know is that we are called to do justice and
love mercy and walk humbly with
God, and I don't see that as e.g. doing something wrong if those for
whom we do justice and mercy turn out to spurn
God's
love for themselves.