(December 25, 2016 at 2:12 am)scoobysnack Wrote: Basically what it means is either you serve yourself, or you serve others and God. By serving others through God, you serve yourself because we are all one. However if you only serve yourself, you can't serve others and God. God wants us to serve others, because in the end we grow ourselves while we grow others towards God.
I think that if I stopped a bunch of people and asked them what this means, I'd get a different answer each time. It's not really a meaningful statement. It offers no specifics and begins with a false dichotomy: either I can only serve myself, or I can only serve others AND god. If "we are all one" then when I serve myself I am serving everyone, am I not? It doesn't make any sense.
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