Deuteronomy 7: 9-10, King James Version (KJV): 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
1st John 4: 15-19, KJV: 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
Mark 12: 29-31, KJV: 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Romans 13: 8-10, KJV: 8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
One of the fighters at “Yahoo! Answers” who regularly uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile information shown) posted the following:
Is God anything more than just an emotion inside your body? Christians keep comparing God to the emotion called love…?
Which is an odd thing to do if God is more than an emotion.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3: 12-21, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Punishment To Show Love? (11/29/2015); Divine Jealousy? (09/11/2015); Awe? (08/09/2015); Divine Love Seen As Hate? (01/29/2015); Love in Knowledge and Judgment? (09/30/2014); Loving Someone Unseen? (05/03/2014); Lot and the Angels (05/04/2014)
“Anonymous”, once a person genuinely endorses their own awareness that GOD is a “life essence” or spirit (we also say, breath, word) divine operations, eternal purposes, and sacred processes must all be understood on the basis of exchange and interaction among multiple spirit substances that together appear (i.e., are made known, are revealed) as Deity. Included are inseparable aspects of divinity such as faith, holiness, innocence, purity, righteousness, truth, wisdom, and wrath against sin. When addressing things from GOD (e.g., divine Creation, judgment, repentance, resurrection, and salvation), the believer should no longer depend upon, or employ the system of definitions and understandings appropriate for responses to express our shared carnal, material, and social being. Saying this another way, You must be born again. We must suspend using language ordinarily used to complete and describe human experience or objects that are abstract, immaterial, and unseen (e.g., conscience, ego, justice, intellect, psyche, mind, soul, will). The preeminent and sovereign Spirit must continually be acknowledged as the center and core for focus, meaning, and value. With this in view, divine love is not an emotion, a feeling, or a static object. Love is an “outcome” of immutable and unchanging processes that we may speak of as being and emanation. Divine law then, is an appearance of GOD (we also say, device and mechanism) that serves as a fixed, knowable and “visible” object (target) for the expression of love by the living. Thus, “love” describes the permanent relationship between the Creator and all created beings and living creatures by going beyond affection to include awe (we also say, fear of the Lord, reverence), commitment, dedication, exclusivity, inclusion, incorruption, sacrifice, selflessness, trust, and unity. GOD himself is existence and the origin of all that exists as well as the single source of life for all. We speak of GOD as a “person”, however, divinity is more correctly known as an organic, “active and directed presence.” To have affinity with GOD, one must contain divine spirit. Consider again the Scriptures:
(1.) John 4: 23-24, King James Version (KJV): 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
(2.) 1st John 5: 2-4, KJV: 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
(3.) 1st John 3: 22-24, KJV: 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
There are many other points that should be carefully considered, correctly understood, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (4.) 1st John 4: 7-9, KJV: 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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