My close friend and I are having on ongoing dispute about the possibility of loving someone and at the same time not liking that person.
As a christian who believe in loving all people, which I do, but after my experience with these individual and more like them I took the stand that I will indeed love all people but only like some
- My view is that you can, of which he strongly oppose, needless to say we where at it from 12:am until minutes to 6 and still have not been able to resolve the issue.
Let me explain my reason for standing so strongly behind my view.
- About eight years ago I had the privilege of meeting and forming relation with some individuals , at first all seems well until I got closer to them then I realize I didn't care much for what I thought at the time was there ways.
Now as time went on I got to understand that this was their character not their ways, for example I believe a person ways are mostly bad habits that are practice, and ones character defines who you are as on individual.
.Now my friend think that is just crazy, how he said can you not like someone but love that person? Simple I respond, as a christian we know that love is base on principle, to be kind, to be patient , to be humble. to be truthful , to be caring and hopeful in all things, the thyme of the gospel of Christ is love, therefore I must love, but not like the bad character of that person, if I should embrace someone who have a bad character I would be telling that person that been bad is good, and would lose any chance of helping he or she to change, so because I don't like their character I don't embrace it.My argument is this since your character defines who you are and I don't like your bad character isn't it a fact that I don't like you? And since it is my desire to see you change because I believe you can, and don't want to see you self destruct, doesn't that means that I love you?
Still confuse? Lets put it this way God loved us but He don't like the sin we commit, right? Now God set out to change us, what does He work on? Isn't it our character?I love the person but I don't like his or her character .
Like however unlike love is base on feelings, the things that you do make me feel good, but the moment I you are not doing the things that I like, I won't be liking you anymore and want to be as far away from you as possible, it;s like a marriage where the wife or husband change and there are constance fighting, they have to separate, they do that not because they like the behavior of each other, no! they do because they don't like it, but I am sure that they love each other.
Say[ God forbid} one of my daughters decided to hang with the wrong crowed and eventually becomes a criminal, do you think I could hate my child? NO! but I would dislike her criminality.I will end on the note on which I commence, so I don't exhaust my point henceforth rendering it redundant .
I would love to hear your views on this topic.
That is why our Lord came to this Earth. He loves us all but does not like the evil that we do.
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It all will depend on the role you are playing or from which you are pondering the point of your topic.
As women
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we have the responsibility and power to preserve life and have the keys of the gates leading toward posterity. It is we who will decide which individual and treats deserves to reach posterity and which must be stopped and die. That’s the law of nature.
So we will open the gates of love to those individuals displaying desirable traits, both physical and in manners, both material and moral traits.
The only exception is in times of war, pandemonium or apocalyptic catastrophe
in which we would preserve life mating with whoever or whatever is available for that purpose.
So, feeling love, falling in love, is the form that power and responsibility of preserving life emerges as a cultural and social habit in normal life.
We don’t think of bad habits when we fall in love unfortunately.
We must consider that bad habits may come as a result of an unhappy marriage. Alcoholism, drug addiction, adultery, you name it, may be the outcome of an unfriendly home, both for male or female counterpart.
So, when talking of couples, its not one individual, its two.
As a mother:
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As a mother you will be always on the side of your son or daughter whatever his or her behavior or fate. Their good and bad behavior will be an outcome of their home education.
As a religious person:
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God has nothing to do with this.
May be there is some connection with the character of virgin Mary who was in charge of the life of jesus when he was a child. When she knew the Herode’s thughs wer coming beheading children at their path she would wait a minute. She took her baby, a donkey and her husband, in that order and left for Egypt. Later, when Jesus was tortured and murdered by the Pharisees, she just went along accompanying him unti l th very end. But again, Mary’s attitudes were those of any woman as a mother, no matter who her son was.
So, God reigns in his clouds above.
Women reign here on earth.
Amen.
God reigns is not limited to the clouds above. And I will add He have everything to do with it, Jesus wasn't just another kid He is the Son of God, and He came here for us, to do for us that which we cannot do for ourselves, Which is a different topic entirely .
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