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What is love?
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What is love?
(04-07-2023, 08:48 PM)ghall10 Wrote:
(04-06-2023, 07:44 PM)bluewater Wrote: What does it mean to love someone? Not brotherly or erotic love, but love for a neighbor or spouse.
Loving someone is choosing to put them ahead of ourselves. The major example of love came from God when he sent his son, Jesus Christ, to do on the cross for our sins. He sacrificed himself for us. Love is sacrificial.

Nope.
The role of the Jewish messiah was not ever to die for sin.
What your example is, .. is one of ancient ignorance, and ancient nonsense.
An evil ancient deity who could not say "I forgive you" is not about love.
The early Christians made the "die for sin" thing up, when the end-times didn't happen, which clearly Jesus and Paul and many others
believed who were Jewish apocalypticists. Jesus never said he was going to die for anyone. When the young man in Matthew asked Jesus what he had to do to get to heaven, Jesus said "keep the commandments" ... not that anyone was going to die for him. Gods who need people to die to make the "tally" fix up equal, are not divine. A real god would be in charge of reality, not subject to it, (as the Christians assert), as one that "needs" retribution. Even Jesus' disciples thought he came to restore the kingdom of Israel. He failed as a messiah. "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel". I doubt you actually read the Bible. If you do, you know where that comes from.
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What is love? - by bluewater - 04-06-2023, 07:44 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dom - 04-06-2023, 08:00 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-06-2023, 08:05 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dom - 04-06-2023, 09:56 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-06-2023, 08:36 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-06-2023, 10:06 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-06-2023, 10:47 PM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-07-2023, 01:14 AM
RE: What is love? - by skyking - 04-06-2023, 08:55 PM
RE: What is love? - by Joods - 04-07-2023, 12:56 AM
RE: What is love? - by skyking - 04-07-2023, 04:16 AM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-06-2023, 09:24 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dānu - 04-06-2023, 09:25 PM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-06-2023, 09:56 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-06-2023, 10:11 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dānu - 04-06-2023, 10:07 PM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-06-2023, 10:43 PM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-07-2023, 01:17 AM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-07-2023, 02:44 AM
RE: What is love? - by Dānu - 04-07-2023, 03:24 AM
RE: What is love? - by no one - 04-07-2023, 12:48 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dānu - 04-07-2023, 02:03 PM
RE: What is love? - by Gwaithmir - 04-07-2023, 02:08 PM
RE: What is love? - by ghall10 - 04-07-2023, 08:48 PM
RE: What is love? - by abaris - 04-07-2023, 08:54 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-07-2023, 08:57 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-08-2023, 08:56 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-08-2023, 09:35 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-08-2023, 09:42 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-08-2023, 09:51 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-08-2023, 11:39 PM
RE: What is love? - by Cavebear - 04-09-2023, 02:55 AM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 12:42 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 04:09 AM
RE: What is love? - by Cavebear - 04-09-2023, 05:50 AM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 01:06 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 01:47 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 02:17 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dom - 04-09-2023, 02:34 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 02:47 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 02:55 PM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-09-2023, 08:01 PM
RE: What is love? - by 1Sam15 - 04-09-2023, 02:36 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 03:00 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 03:10 PM
RE: What is love? - by Inkubus - 04-09-2023, 04:03 PM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-09-2023, 08:03 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dom - 04-09-2023, 08:56 PM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-09-2023, 04:19 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 06:28 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 06:42 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 07:44 PM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-09-2023, 11:24 PM
RE: What is love? - by Inkubus - 04-09-2023, 05:33 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 06:19 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 06:23 PM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-09-2023, 07:46 PM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-09-2023, 12:39 AM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-07-2023, 11:35 PM
RE: What is love? - by Astreja - 04-08-2023, 12:10 AM
RE: What is love? - by mordant - 04-08-2023, 12:50 AM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-08-2023, 08:29 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-08-2023, 08:56 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-08-2023, 09:00 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-08-2023, 09:36 PM
RE: What is love? - by 1Sam15 - 04-09-2023, 11:09 AM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 01:17 PM
RE: What is love? - by 1Sam15 - 04-09-2023, 01:26 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 01:53 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 02:01 PM
RE: What is love? - by 1Sam15 - 04-09-2023, 02:06 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 02:35 PM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-09-2023, 07:57 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 11:05 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-10-2023, 12:39 AM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-10-2023, 03:12 AM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-09-2023, 04:11 PM
RE: What is love? - by Dānu - 04-08-2023, 12:19 AM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-08-2023, 01:00 AM
RE: What is love? - by epronovost - 04-08-2023, 05:48 PM
RE: What is love? - by Cavebear - 04-08-2023, 05:10 AM
RE: What is love? - by no one - 04-08-2023, 08:46 PM
RE: What is love? - by no one - 04-08-2023, 10:22 PM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-08-2023, 10:44 PM
RE: What is love? - by no one - 04-08-2023, 11:55 PM
RE: What is love? - by bluewater - 04-09-2023, 12:15 AM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-09-2023, 09:33 PM
RE: What is love? - by Paleophyte - 04-10-2023, 01:58 AM
RE: What is love? - by Dānu - 04-10-2023, 02:41 AM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-10-2023, 03:51 AM
RE: What is love? - by Vic2Ree - 04-12-2023, 06:59 AM
RE: What is love? - by Cavebear - 04-12-2023, 07:32 AM
RE: What is love? - by Gwaithmir - 04-12-2023, 10:51 AM
RE: What is love? - by TheGentlemanBastard - 04-19-2023, 01:30 AM
RE: What is love? - by Thumpalumpacus - 04-19-2023, 07:14 AM
RE: What is love? - by Inkubus - 04-19-2023, 09:32 AM
RE: What is love? - by Dom - 04-19-2023, 01:18 PM
RE: What is love? - by Inkubus - 04-22-2023, 12:02 AM
RE: What is love? - by Dānu - 04-22-2023, 01:10 AM
RE: What is love? - by Vic2Ree - 04-22-2023, 07:37 AM
RE: What is love? - by Bucky Ball - 04-22-2023, 05:04 PM



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