It’s impossible to be a Christian if you don’t love people.
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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Mathew 23:23
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Typically these individuals are lovers of self.
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My limited experience is that people are a lot easier to love than to like.
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1 john 4:16
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Really true..as the scripture said…’Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law’. Romans 13:8
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Oh I don’t know. Some Christian people have mental illness. Be compassionate
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What is a Christian? I can tell you that simply loving someone does not make one a Christian. Do Christian’s have no sin? What did Jesus say? Now you know the answer.
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AMEN!!
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Some ARE a lot harder to love than others!!!
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We are compelled by God to love…but like is another story.Pray for your brothers and sisters pray for those that spitefully use you hate you for your faith.
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Having a proper definition of love is important. It is not some warm and fuzzy feeling wrapped in hugs and kisses. Sometimes love is stern. Sometimes loves says things that no one wants to hear. Sometimes love calls people out. Sometimes, love walks away.
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I love people but I don’t like very many of them 🙂
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It possible however we should pray to allow Jesus to work in our life to show us how to love people but hate the sin that influence them as He did.
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1 Corinthians 13:1
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Define love
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If you are a Christian you will love people.
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Yes I agree. However why is it some people teach that God only loves Christians. I was reading a post earlier that said God only loves Christians and I don’t believe that
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By this shall all men know you are my disciples, if you love one another.
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It’s impossible to truly love people, unless you are a Christian!
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it is impossible not to love people if you are a christian
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There is nothing loving about letting people go to hell without warning for bible believing Christians.
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Some people are harder to love than others
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This became easier for me when I learned that this love can be a verb. Love the noun is the feeling while love the verb is doing for others. I’ve found that doing a loving act for someone I don’t like helps soften my dislike for them. Feelings are unreliable, the heart being deceitful. All of this except ether bible quote is only my opinion.
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It’s impossible to be a Christian if you rely on something besides the presence of Jesus Christ in your life to make you one.
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And it’s impossible to truly love people if you’re not a Christian.
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True absolutely true
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Well god loves some ppl
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It’s impossible to be a Christian if you make excuses for SIN, Celebrate SIN or tolerate Sin. Just as much without any measure of Repentance either.
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Exactly
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Its impossible to love people with God’s love UNLESS you are a Christian! Me thinks this is more to the point and accurate.
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If a Christian loves others, said Christians has to correct their behavior, a la Leviticus 19:17 and 18. (Verse 18 is the one the Lord quotes in Matthew 22.) When I write “correct their behavior” here I’m thinking about those behaviors that are detrimental like touching a hot stove – detrimental to the toucher – and drinking and drinking – potential detrimentally to the drinker and to many others.Same neighborhood in Leviticus directs
don’t lie,
don’t steal,
don’t deceive.Now tell me, if a Christian lies to, steals from, or deceives others, can that Christian still claim to lover others?
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Love your enemy. Jesus washed Judas feet.
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Yes! If your theology does not lead you to be more loving than you have really bad theology.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:7-8, ESV)
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1 John 4: 7-8 Beloved let us love one another. For love is of God and everyone who loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love.
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Being a cult or not usually has to to with a churches doctrine of Christ , his person or his work.
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Every person who loves people not Christian. The love based on Christ’s love will reflect true love.
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no –> “agape” not possible!
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Correct! According to the Bible it IS impossible. Here are three passages of Scripture to verify this claim:
1) 1st John 4:7-8 says “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not loveth not God; for God is love.”
2) 1 John 4:20-21
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.”3) In Mark chapter 12 verses 28-31 Jesus says that the greatest commandment is to love the Lord with every fiber and strength of your being and the 2nd is like it; love your neighbor as yourself.
Scripture is pretty clear on this matter. You can’t be a Christian without having love for other people.
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God is love
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If being Christian is dependent on the love one shows who is to judge what is love and who is a Christian!
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Couldn’t agree more with that and I’m ashamed to say that as a believer I do not always show love to my fellow man OR my fellow believer. Just being honest.
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Amen to that ?
Fully in Agreement.
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