From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 12:47:48 EDT
In a message dated 7/16/03 8:47:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sbrasile@hotmail.com writes:
> Rich,
>
> Exactly! Don and others are forgetting about the FIRST commandment; love,
> honor and obey God. Jesus put it this way, "'Love the Lord your God with all
> your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all
> your mind'"
>
> We love God first and foremost, if we love him... we obey him. How can we
> love Him if we don't obey him? He said not to indulge in homosexuality, so
> how can we truly love him if we disobey his commands?
> You cannot ignore this love-obedience relationship then skip right to "agape
> love" between two humans makes an abomination into a beautiful thing.
>
>
sondra,
I have to agree with you.
There are no loopholes - if we do not obey God, (even the Levitical
prohibitions the liberal agenda would discard), we embrace death, not life. The Lord
said he who keeps my commandments will have life through them and that is
literally true - a quick sociological survey of Lev. 19 reveals the prohibited
practices bring death and social disintegration. Doing God's will brings life and
social cohesion. But the pragmatics of religious devotion are lost when people
are busy trying to make the texts conform to their desires. In your superbly
chosen quote I see we are expected to love God with heart, soul, strength, mind
- but body is not mentioned. Body is mastered and denied at will with all
the strength of the heart, the soul, the mind.
“This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take
it up again. No one takes it from me but I lay it down on my own. I have
power to lay it down and power to take it up again. This command I have received
from my Father (John 10:17).”
rich
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