TruthSeeker
The kind of Love I speak here is compassionate and altruistic. It is more general than self-focused (close relationships, for example). It is Love for other human-beings that you don't even know. It is to Love just by the sake of Loving.
It is, is it? Funny how you just said "mine is bigger than yours" with a straight face.
Love is THE ONLY Law of God.
Like the love he shows his wayward children for disbelieving him?
I was personalizing It:
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It is important to personalize those things. What is your score in a total of six?
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That's why I stated the question as "I".
Precisely my point, you're asking people to personalise their love for the purpose of
quantifying it. Namely, by telling them to check for these things, you presumably have gone through the checklist yourself and have a fairly high score. Namely, you're hanging your superior 'love' out of your pants for all to see.
Again, not personilized. And I'm talking about God's kind of Love, which is perfect.
Liar, you just told me that it
was personalised.
And regarding God's perfect love, refer to Exodus 4:11.
"And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?"
Namely, god in all his love is personally responsible for people being born with disabilities. Nice guy.
When you focus outward you start judging what you Love. For example, if you focus on someone, you will start to see some imperfections in this person and will start to apply conditions to your love. But if you focus on God (which IS Love HIMSELF), than you won't focus it outwardly but rather on Itself. You will just Love by the simple act of Loving.
So I need to love love... to love? But how can I love love properly if I can't love properly in the first place? Maybe love is the only thing that we can love perfectly without loving love first.
All that head-wrecking crap aside, I think I'll take my own definition of love, thanks; your god has a habit of punishing those he 'loves' rather spectacularly and for little reason aside from personal pride.
You say that god is perfect love, which (I understand) is true unconditional love ie that any and all slights are instantly forgiven with no grudge of any kind.
This of course means that no sacrifice is necessary to forgive, or else this love would not be unconditional. My question is this: why did God sacrifice his only son so that our sins would be forgiven? Why would this sacrifice be necessary? If his love was unconditional then bygones would be bygones and all that song and dance and pain and suffering would have been unnecessary.
Humble... With your words, it wouldn't be foolish to assume that what you call me is the mere reflection of who you really are. But I won't asssume things as you and others do. You don't know me. You don't know my nature. So how can you really judge me like that?
"Who you really are"? By this statement you seem to be accusing me of being a Christian who hangs his 'love' out of his pants for all to 'ooh' and 'ahh' over. Sorry, but you pulled the wrong stock-arguement out of your butt there.
"*snap snap* nuh uh... you don't know me, girlfriend!"
Puh-leeze. I judge you like that because your words reek of self-centredness and self-righteousness. You make no secret of the fact that you believe your brand of love to be better than mine.
Do you want the quotation marks bigger? I'm NOT judging people as "little children", I'm just stating the kind of Love that we have for little cute babies...
... AAAAWWWWWWW
Yes, 'cute little babies' who don't know any better. Really, your tact is matched only by your astounding ignorance and rapier wit.
"Awwww, look at the widdle atheist, he's so cute! Look at how he questions the universe when it's all laid out in this nifty package in the bible! Poor little guy, I just HAVE to help him!"
