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Jay520 on 17 September 2012
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Farmageddon said:


1. Crhist does talk an awfull lot about love and what it means and how to treat the fellow man and about your relationship with God and how hurting other people hurts God and whatnot. There's a multi-thousand-pages book around these simple bullet-point rules which you're convinently ignoring. Supposedly there's also the Holy Ghost and prayer and what not which should guide your interpretation.

Besidesm ow you think it should be worded? A single or a few quick laws on all of behaviour? How would you generalize it that a little of "good will" on those reading wouldn't be necessary. Your being too dense just for the sake of being.

So, answering 1, loveand how you act aren't separable according to other passages, at least as I understand. And for 2, yes, technically you're right. But what is meant (don't do to others that which you wouldn't want them to do to you) is not hard to understand and is made more explicit by many other passages and sermons and what not.


1. You may be right about how "Loved" is defined in the bible. But I'm not conveniently ignoring them. I haven't read up on these thousand pages on what "Love" means. So perhaps I may be wrong on what "Love" means. For that, I won't be commenting more on what "Love" means until I have clearly learned what it means according to the bible.

2. "Treat others the way you would want to be treated." That's quite different from using a complex and undefined term like "Love." I don't think I'm being dense on purpose. Do you realize how many 'twisted' (by my definition or 'twisted') people there are with the most asinine definitions of Love. Some people think you can only truly love someone if you have sex with them. I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually used their "love" to justify raping someone. 

3. I disagree. You can love someone, yet still do harm to that person. As for the don't do to others that which you wouldn't want them to do to you. It's still up to subjective interpretation. It's based on what how the person wants to be treated, which obviously varies from person.

 "Love your neighbor as you Love yourself."And what if a person has low self-esteem and doesn't love himself? 

Again, the phrase is incredibly vague and difficult to be applied to certain specific scenarios.

 But again, I haven't read up on the countless passages and verses that may define what "love" is, so this will be my last post on the matter, unless otherwise requested.