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Can you love on command?
Matthew 22:36-40 (KJV)
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy Godwith all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thyneighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and theprophets.
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Jesus should know, --- if intelligent at all, that anemotions like love cannot be commanded or demanded from people.
Whatever force was driving Jesus to put that command intoour reality, be that force or God real or myth, could not have been a veryintelligent force.
You recognize those you love and who return the emotion byworks and deeds.
Can one be effectively ordered to love knowing that truelove, as with true faith, must have deeds, works and reciprocity?
Imagine you never doing anything for those you love. Theywould and could not know you love them. Imagine those who profess loving youwithout them ever showing it by actions. You could never know that they loveyou.
Can you love on command a God that is not here and unable toshare that love?
Can you love your neighbor without doing something for him?
Is love a one way thing or must it be returned to be reallove?
Are the so called great commandments unworkable rhetoric?
You should know that I think we are basically all livingthose commandments in a partial and blind way, as we are collectively helpingour poorer neighbors. It is the intellectual efficacy or veracity of thosecommands that I question.
Regards
DL
Matthew 22:36-40 (KJV)
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy Godwith all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thyneighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and theprophets.
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Jesus should know, --- if intelligent at all, that anemotions like love cannot be commanded or demanded from people.
Whatever force was driving Jesus to put that command intoour reality, be that force or God real or myth, could not have been a veryintelligent force.
You recognize those you love and who return the emotion byworks and deeds.
Can one be effectively ordered to love knowing that truelove, as with true faith, must have deeds, works and reciprocity?
Imagine you never doing anything for those you love. Theywould and could not know you love them. Imagine those who profess loving youwithout them ever showing it by actions. You could never know that they loveyou.
Can you love on command a God that is not here and unable toshare that love?
Can you love your neighbor without doing something for him?
Is love a one way thing or must it be returned to be reallove?
Are the so called great commandments unworkable rhetoric?
You should know that I think we are basically all livingthose commandments in a partial and blind way, as we are collectively helpingour poorer neighbors. It is the intellectual efficacy or veracity of thosecommands that I question.
Regards
DL
