RE: Can you love on command?
August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2014 at 1:37 pm by Greatest I am.)
(August 29, 2014 at 12:03 pm)Diablo Wrote: So christians have to love gay people if they live next to them? Yippee.
Yes. If they are decent Christians. Many are not.
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DL
(August 29, 2014 at 12:11 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: I've never really read that passage as mandating an emotion so much as a practice. It might be unworkable rhetoric for many of us, but I suspect that people who devote themselves to consistent acts of loving-kindness to others (and not just "loved ones") eventually develop a strong disposition to feel compassionate and loving toward most people most of the time. Like Michael said: a movement of the will, not an emotion -- though I think the practice plants and reinforces the emotion over time.
No argument on man to man. I did put a question to Michael just above. Please have a go at it.
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DL
(August 29, 2014 at 12:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: ...thereby proving that atheists can also cherry pick when it suits their agenda.
Was that for me?
I was an atheist or non-believer at one time but I am now a Gnostic Christian.
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DL
