RE: Platitudes
September 11, 2014 at 9:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2014 at 9:38 am by RobbyPants.)
(September 9, 2014 at 9:12 am)Drich Wrote: and that is why your interpretation here is not a doctrine of Christ. The command is to love God with all of your being and love your neighbor as yourself.
To love everyone means what ever you want it to mean, but as Christ commands to love your neighbor as yourself is to hold your neighbor to the same standards and even restrictions as you place on yourself.
The command Christ gives is not one of allowing your love for your neighbor to exceed the love you have been given that has manifest in the love you have for yourself.
Okay, now how do you take that and figure out how to act in any given situation? Two different Christians will take every word you just typed and act differently on it. One will say that it's our duty to love the homosexuals and to allow them to make their own choices, encouraging them with our own good example. Another would say we have to love them and make laws outlawing their bad behavior to help them.
Neither one of those is inconsistent with what you said. It sounds all nice when you type it out in the vaguest way possible, but it's also completely in-actionable. It's a platitude.