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How do I love my neighbor as I love myself?

36   “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37   And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38   This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself 40 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:36-40 Everyone want to be treated fairly, in fact even small children when they don’t get their way, retort quickly by saying “That’s not fair!”   We know that the moral value that the world calls fairness, or Justice, or the sense of social responsibility is grounded not in our own subjective opinion. But rather it is found in a objective standard that is found outside and greater than you or I. We say that objective standard is on what is morally right God.  To the right there is a button that says follow, Click it So then when Jesus Says “You shall love your neighbor as...

What meaning can there be in a love that is not costly to the lover?

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This question was given to me, a week or two ago, and it took about 5 days to answer.  Not that it was so difficult as it was difficult to come to understand the question. So I waited and waited for God to make clear what he would have me respond.  After five days I got up one Saturday Morning ready to address the question. Below is an excerpt from my response, which caused me and I would suggest us all to introspectively consider or reconsider not our love, but our hate for our brother man. Luke 10:30 A traveler was beaten and robbed and left near dead  I don’t want to be mistaken, when I first read the question I was completely stumped. Not so much by the question as I was syntax of the question which if inferred incorrectly will naturally reach an undesirable conclusion. Fearful that my solution would be err due to my ignorance, I re-framed from any antiphon choosing not to try to befuddle you with Bull****, in an attempt to display my prideful br...

Am I my brother's keeper?

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And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.   And the   Lord   said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?  And he said , What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground . ( Genesis 4:8-10 ) ) What we can learn from a Homeless Man Scripture above records a very perverted account of a relationship between two brothers. And depending on how we perceive the scripture to interpret brotherhood,  we may very well be playing out  this murder of our brothers over and over again.  The thing that metaphysically calls us Cains is our  defining of the word brother.  How we answer the question  " Who is my brother? " makes a different in the level of hypocrisy in which we walk out our Christian faith.  Do we limit brotherhood to those ...