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Yes, same here.I've never understood that one. I love everyone MORE than myself. Yes I know, personal issue, lol.
Absolute v Relative.I've never understood that one. I love everyone MORE than myself. Yes I know, personal issue, lol.
We are not separate from others? Never heard the story of the 99 sheep? One separated from the rest.This is a misleading question: you are not separate from others, so how can you love yourself and not love others?
I think that is it.Maybe it’s more a case of accepting the love of Christ for ourselves
perhaps it’s a case of asking him to trust in the inner work of the Holy Spirit
Welcome to the forum @Lordsflower.If we can't feel love for our self,how would we know what love is so to say we love others?
How can we say we love God if we don't know what love is?
Hi WranglerI think that is it.
In Sunday's sermon, the Pastor talked about the difficulty many Christians have is RECEIVING grace.
Bingo! Ever hear the expression, "you can't get blood out of a stone?" It is not about the object of trust, the Holy Spirit. It is this man is so wounded, he never developed the capacity to trust, period. People were the cause of pain and he lived a very dark life of suspecting everyone of treachery and duplicity.
Praise God he is on the right path. Another friend told him that talking about it, admitting all this, proves that.
A slight variant: What advice can I give someone not who struggles to forgive themselves for what they've done but who hates themselves for WHO THEY ARE?The Bible says precious little about self love. It is implied when it says to love others as ourselves. What advice can you give to those who struggle to live and forgive themselves?
What is to stop us from loving anyone we want to love?Talked with a fairly new Christian over the weekend. He lived a meth chemist and dealer for a season before coming to Christ. He struggles to forgive himself. So, it got me thinking Can You Truly Love Others If You Don't Love Yourself? Love to hear your thoughts.
Nothing, it's a choice. But we may need to learn how.What is to stop us from loving anyone we want to love?
I think there is confusion as to what it means to love people. I believe "love," as the word is used in the Bible, refers to how we treat people. As for how we feel about people, I think that's up to us.Nothing, it's a choice. But we may need to learn how.
Except a few mentally diseased people, everybody loves themself.
Ephesians 5:28-29 KJV
28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Much love!
We are not separate from others? Never heard the story of the 99 sheep? One separated from the rest.
Point is, he does not love himself. Turning your question on its head. So, how can he love others?