Do you believe in love? (a.k.a hear me ranting)

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madskillz said:

1.) While you can spin this all you want, what he quoted was directly out of the Bible - I. Cor. 13:13 Without God, the love you speak of is a hollow shell. I am not trying to preach and you, of course, can believe whatever you want to believe, but if you are going to agree with that statement, you also agree that the Bible has truth and should make you question your beliefs.

2.) EDIT: I never, EVER mentioned religion in my post. God and religion are often two different things, son.

1 Cor. 13

Love

1If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,^[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

 

 

1.) Okay, so he [almost] quoted the Bible. I don't see what the big deal is though. I was interpeting faith as something not exclusive to religion. I know you were initially joking, but I felt it needed to be clarified. Atheists can have faith, too.

 

Also, don't try to use faulty logic to draw a conclusion about me; just because the Bible carries some truths doesn't mean I believe the whole thing does. "Therefore..." no, just no.

 

2.) Of course God and religion are two different things. When you said "That only works if you believe in the Creator ", I interpreted that as meaning faith was tied to being told what is so (as in a religion). Again, the wink told me you were joking, I just wanted to clarify it, though.