That's not to say we should condone negative / sinful traits, but speaking about them in this nasty way just reinforces to them that you don't love your neighbor as much as you're concerned with being self - righteous.
If you express love for God in your music but no love for anyone else, you are not fulfilling the first and greatest commandment, because you are
not loving your neighbor as yourself.
They know I will question ANYONE of ANY belief system when I see
them not loving their neighbor as themselves.
Much suffering of people comes from the wickedness of others, as in child abuse, wife abuse, and many other forms of
not loving a neighbor as oneself.
No new world will change the primal fact that I do
not love my neighbor as myself.
The first man I caught who did
not love his neighbor as hisself, I would make him change places with his neighbor — the rich with the poor, the white with the black, and Governor Faubus with me» [Simple's Uncle Sam (Hill & Wang, 1965), p. 160].
If u do
nt love ur neighbor as urself then u do nt love God n to Hell u'll go
If I am
not loving my neighbor as myself, my theology is worthless and meaningless.
You do
not love your neighbor as yourself 2.
Not exact matches
We are living under the new covenant,
not OT law - Jesus said the law can be summed up in only 2 laws:
love your
neighbor as yourself and
love God with all your heart.
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.
So, if you have actually read a bible and have a better argument for me than «I want proof» (because there is none, it's a religious BELIEF) or that Christians judge people or hate people (because
as a TRUE Christian you must
not judge & you must
love thy
neighbor) then I'm all for it!
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.
Jesus proclaimed many progressive ideas, none greater than
loving your
neighbor as yourself, but
not one word denouncing slavery.
I am
not advocating a return to the status quo ante when Christian belief and life were carried on
as if our
neighbor were significant only
as a means to learn the
love of God.
The second, which is like the first, but
not the first, is to
love our
neighbor,
not as God but
as ourselves.
All I'm trying to say here is that when I'm told to
love God with my whole heart, soul and mind, and to
love my
neighbor as myself, and to forgive others unconditionally, and to
love my wife unconditionally, and to be kind and compassionate to others and to
love my en emies and to take care of orphans and to feed the hungry and
not to li e or to e nvy or be boastful or arro gant or hypoc ritical or a gossip or proud, and when I'm told that God demonstrated his
love for us in that while we were still in s in, Christ di ed for us, I realize that these things have no relevance to the grie vances I find in» religion.»
Love God and your
neighbor as yourself and SEVERELY BEAT that slave who knew his master's will, and did
not prepare himself or do according to his will.
32.35) And, «Do
not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but
love your
neighbor as yourself.»
I don't support gay rights but I would
not treat them
as if they were
not human,
as Christians we are still to
love them because they are our
neighbors.
hmm... i thought
loving god and
loving your
neighbor as you wished to be
loved... i guess they didn't read that far yet
«I
love my
neighbor as myself» isn't the Golden Rule.
You «do» realize that Christians practice the New Testament: «
love your
neighbor as yourself», «turn the other cheek», «judge
not and ye shall
not be judged».
He is the only animal that
loves his
neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.
But let us probe further Vs. 39 And the second is like it: «
love your
neighbor as yourself» Which you will interpret and conclude is the end but it isn't.
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.»
This contradicts
not only the fifth commandment but Jesus» own instruction to «
Love thy
neighbor as thyself.»
You can be a Jew or Christian who
loves his
neighbor as himself or
not.
This nervous zigzaggery through life didn't leave much time or energy for
loving God with all my heart and soul and mind or my
neighbor as myself.
They can look at a passage like «
Love your
neighbor as yourself» and know that their
neighbor may be the person sitting beside them in church, but that
neighbor could also be someone who doesn't even attend church.
For example, he rightly points out that Jesus says, «You have heard that it was said, «You shall
love your
neighbor and hate your enemy»» (Matthew 5:38), but what he doesn't say is that there is a reason Jesus uses the expression, «that it was said» instead of his usual expression, «have you
not read» or «
as it is written» when he references scriptural passages.
For: «To
love oneself
as identical with oneself and the other
as not identical with oneself is
not, whatever else it may be, to
love the
neighbor as oneself» (CSPM 200).
If you must chose a deity to believe in why would you chose such a mean one
as the bible's god, there are many options and many are rather fun
loving and do
not require that you hate and kill your
neighbor.
In our hearts, we either know or don't know, accept or don't accept, that we are
not what we know we should be —
not nearly
as loving our
neighbor,
as many like to make themselves out to be — and that therefore Christ's offer is one that we gratefully accept.
This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were
not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is
not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that —
as long
as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your
neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile,
love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!
Not long after his summer blockbuster Free State of Jones came out, Matthew McConaughey explained to The Daily Beast that his character «had a moral code rooted in the Bible and the Declaration of Independence:
Love thy
neighbor as thyself, and all men are created equal.»
But the Bible would tell her to
Love your
neighbor as yourself and should would
not be honoring that by hurting you.
If you
love your
neighbor as you
love yourself, you will
not want to see that
neighbor suffer in any way.
and Leviticus 19:18» «Do
not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but
love your
neighbor as yourself.»
Otherwise we must invent an explanation of Jesus» command to «
love your
neighbors as yourselves» that does
not resemble Jesus.
As a follower of Jesus, however, I do need to heed his words to
love the people in my world, my «
neighbors» —
Not just the people on my block, but everyone I come in contact with — with his
love.
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).
First, it can
not be assumed that the Christian faith is taught in such a way
as to emphasize
love of
neighbor (all
neighbors) and respect for human life.
The goal is
not getting to the end of the path, but
love my
neighbor as myself
as I encounter them on the path I walk.
In the pluralist dialogue where myths are critiqued,
love will emerge
as that absolute, and I will find «that I can
not love [my
neighbor]
as myself unless I take my place on the one bit of higher ground that will hold us both — unless I
love God.
«44
Love is
not deified,
as it typically was by Israel's
neighbors.
Jesus said to
love your
neighbors as your self, but he also said to
not get involved in the worldly sinful nature.
you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where
not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible,
as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE
love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great
The true way of life is
not a question of rights but of
love and service to the One Creator God, His Christ, and to
love our
neighbor as ourselves.
Thou shall
not ki11 Thou shall
not bear false witness Thou shall
love thy
neighbor as thyself.