RE: Love the Lord your God with all your heart ?
June 14, 2016 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2016 at 12:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 14, 2016 at 10:09 am)Kingpin Wrote: Agape love. The same type of "love" you would show/have for your earthly parents. You may not agree with them, even be angry with them at times, but you love them.
If god wants me to love him as I love my parents he's going to need to put in the work that my parents put in. Even though they -did- put in the work that god has not, I don't recall them ever making any demands to that end, nor spiking their demands with veiled or open threats if I couldn't manage it. This love god demands, the greatest of all his commandments, does not seem, at all, like the love between my parents and myself.
I doubt that god would fail to understand love, how it is developed or nurtured, and only a person who -has- can even begin to make such a demand as "I command you to love me".
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