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If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
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Okay, enough with the “love” stuff.
Comment by Richard January 9, 2008 @ 9:07 amI don’t know where you get off talking like this, but it’s making me sick. If you think Christianity has anything to do with this “love” stuff then you got it all wrong. Christianity is about laws and rules to follow. Haven’t you ever heard of the Ten Commandments? Yes we know Jesus loved us, that’s why he died for us. So, follow the Ten Commandments: Don’t steal, Don’t murder (this doesn’t apply to soldiers, obviously, it’s different, God Bless the Troops), Obey your Parents, Don’t break the law, Marriage is between one man and one women, Don’t Cheat and the others. See, none of that is about this lovey dovey nonsense.
What are you talking about??? Christianity is ALL ABOUT LOVE!!! Yes, there are rules, but following rules alone won’t get you to Heaven. That’s not even Biblical. What is the gospel message? “For God so loved the world that he sent is one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not parish but have eternal life.” God loves us. He made it possible through Jesus’ death for us to have eternal life. Now, God has some rules and guidlines. If we really love God and follow him, then we will want to obey those rules. It’s like loving your father. If you really love him, you’re more likely to obey him.
Comment by Josh Z January 14, 2008 @ 10:02 pmThe reason for all the commands was to give us a guide a rule a way a path to follow. It is designed to demonstrate the way to intimacy with the Most High. Then, when we COULD NOT OBEY, Yeshua Mashiach died for us. He turned us from being enemies of G-d to children of G-d whom He loves and chastens as Earthly Father’s chasten their wayward sons and daughters. This is the love He has for us, that He died that we might no longer be enemies doomed to eternal death, but sons and daughters. So then the commandments, the mitzvah of G-d, is like the rules my own Father gave me to show his love for me. To teach me the way to be a man. In so far greater a manner did our Heavenly Father, Abba, give us the law to instruct us in righteousness.
Comment by Ramon March 23, 2008 @ 3:52 amRichard must be joking. Enough with the love stuff! lol.
Christianity is all about love, love, love and some more love on top of a stack of love. And the roots of the very wrongness that we see today in the church and in christianity is legalism and the lack of love.
Good response Josh Z
Comment by Chad April 18, 2008 @ 5:31 pm