What is love.??
According to Jesus and Paul..
It's patience and kindness...by this they will know that we are His disciples.
I know what you are meaning here, but I think it can be misleading if we take it exactly as written. Its not like a cap, or a pair of socks, where one size fits all.
Is love, (charity) patience? or is patience a product of charity? Is love kindness, or is kindness a virtue of one who has charity?
The reason I am pointing this out is that Jesus was the greatest example of love ever known, yet there was times when Jesus appeared harse, angry, without patience, ect. Did Jesus run out of love, when he said, "you generation of vipers"? When he said, "ye are of your father the devil and his works ye will do"? Jesus said, "The works that I do isn't of myself, but the Father who dwelleth in me, He doeth the works" So God being a God of "Love" as the scripture declared, working in Jesus, braided a whip and drove the sellers from the temple. Isn't God a God of love, even when he is cleansing the temple? When He speaks the hard sayings and the multitudes turn away and leave him, Isn't he still a God of love? When the circumstances requires, and we must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather are commanded to reprove them, do we obey the God of Love? So we see that love, (charity) sometimes must reprove and rebuke, and exort, ect. There are times when love demands that the truth be told, and be told firmly with conviction. There are times when love lift must her voice and cry, "Repent, or perish". Charity will warn the wicked to turn from his wicked ways. Love will withstand a wayward brother and turn him back toward the fold.
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will[a] believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me." John 17:20-23
I've always thought highly of the commentary by Rabbi Akiva who preceded Jesus by a century or so. He said that the two greatest commandment were as follows. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength, and your neighbor as yourself. This is the whole Law and the Prophets. All the rest is just commentary."
That's pretty deep stuff
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I heard Jesus He drank wine and I bet we'd get along just fine.
I've always thought highly of the commentary by Rabbi Akiva who preceded Jesus by a century or so. He said that the two greatest commandment were as follows. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength, and your neighbor as yourself. This is the whole Law and the Prophets. All the rest is just commentary."
That's pretty deep stuff
I though Rabbi Akiva Ben Yosef lived between 50-135 CE, so how can he have preceeded Christ?
He was the Sage of Sages and responsible for the Rabbinical Judaism which came way after Christ ??????
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The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. Zephaniah 1:14
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That's pretty deep stuff
