johnthebaptist Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Non-Conformist Theology Followers: 6 Topic Count: 118 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,361 Content Per Day: 2.35 Reputation: 2,109 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/03/1953 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Paul told us this: No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head." Rom 12:20 RSV Would you say love is how we treat people or is it how we feel about people? Please explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sower Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,204 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,792 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Online Share Posted November 10, 2019 11 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said: Would you say love is how we treat people or is it how we feel about people? Please explain. love is how we treat people good intentions/feelings just helps us feel good treating people good feels good and helps them feel good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhchristian Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 9 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 2,488 Content Per Day: 1.43 Reputation: 1,325 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/29/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted November 10, 2019 9 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said: "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head." Rom 12:20 RSV Would you say love is how we treat people or is it how we feel about people? Please explain. God's Love is like a spring of water in a desert. When the tribulations of life come the sources of water in the desert dry up, the brooks and streams cannot flow in the harsh dryness. But the Love of God comes from within the person and never dries up, and refreshes both friend and foe. God's love overflows from our soul and reaches to others, even to 0our enemies. To answer your question, We Love, because he first loved us, in that while we were yet enemies, he died for us. Thus we love not out compulsion or command, but out of a heartfelt desire to see others experience the Love of God, including our enemies. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthebaptist Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Non-Conformist Theology Followers: 6 Topic Count: 118 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,361 Content Per Day: 2.35 Reputation: 2,109 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/03/1953 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 3 minutes ago, dhchristian said: God's Love is like a spring of water in a desert. When the tribulations of life come the sources of water in the desert dry up, the brooks and streams cannot flow in the harsh dryness. But the Love of God comes from within the person and never dries up, and refreshes both friend and foe. God's love overflows from our soul and reaches to others, even to 0our enemies. To answer your question, We Love, because he first loved us, in that while we were yet enemies, he died for us. Thus we love not out compulsion or command, but out of a heartfelt desire to see others experience the Love of God, including our enemies. Does love require action? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.26 Reputation: 9,760 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted November 10, 2019 8 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said: Does love require action? I'd say that Christian love requires an action, be it doing something for somone or just praying for them, that is love in action. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sower Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,204 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,792 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Online Share Posted November 10, 2019 10 minutes ago, maryjayne said: Both How we feel about them influences how we treat them, and vice versa. Yes, but; How I have felt about some was not necessarily how I treated them. I do not always 'treat' the ones I love as I could/should. Like wise, I have treated some I didn't like as though I loved them. (It was the love of Christ in me, and not my 'feelings' of love. Obedience vs desire..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Repose Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 205 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 231 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/06/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted November 10, 2019 I'd describe love as something that needs to be grown, and practiced in order to be grown. So a starting basis of wanting to love others, tempered with loving actions, slowly growing into having that love in a more sincere, non-action way. Perhaps with less time needed in order for that love to grow as more experience is gained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthebaptist Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Non-Conformist Theology Followers: 6 Topic Count: 118 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,361 Content Per Day: 2.35 Reputation: 2,109 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/03/1953 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 26 minutes ago, OneLight said: I'd say that Christian love requires an action, be it doing something for somone or just praying for them, that is love in action. There would probably be times when love requires action. I think one of the New Testament writers addresses that. If you need $10, and I have $10 to spare, I can give you the $10, or I can pray for you. It would probably be best to give you the $10. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.26 Reputation: 9,760 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted November 10, 2019 22 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said: There would probably be times when love requires action. I think one of the New Testament writers addresses that. If you need $10, and I have $10 to spare, I can give you the $10, or I can pray for you. It would probably be best to give you the $10. So true. James tells us that faith without works is dead. Paul tells us that no matter what we have, if we don't have love, it is worth nothing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhchristian Posted November 10, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 9 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 2,488 Content Per Day: 1.43 Reputation: 1,325 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/29/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted November 10, 2019 57 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said: Does love require action? The action is the result of God's love overflowing from us. Some verses.... No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ....And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.(1 John 4:12, 16-19) God's love is the natural outflowing of God's love for us. It is not a "forced" action, but one that comes naturally through us. Both Religious and non religious people can feel a certain way about people, and they can treat people in a loving way, But this is not God's love flowing through us. It is not agape Love but Phileo(brotherly love). Agape Love is the New commandment of Jesus, To love one another as he loved us (sacrificially). It is the last step in our sanctification according to 2 Peter 1:5-7 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness (philadelphia); and to brotherly kindness charity (Agape). Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. (Romans 12:9) Love must be sincere (without dissimulation) Thus it is tied to the Truth. Love that tolerates wickedness is not Love instead we must speak the Truth in Love (Eph. 4:15) And vice versa Love the Truth(2 thess 2:10) To abhor Evil is to love someone at times, Tough love as we call it these days. For example, an addict will ask you for a "loving" handout, But you are merely enabling their wicked addiction if you do so.... I Don't know about you, But I could write about this topic for days, and still not explain the immensity of His Love for us. Great topic. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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