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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind
mtd, you are basically saying that if and when we obey the word our love is made perfect. I don't disagree with this verse but I disagree with your method. I am perceiving that you are saying that obedience leads to love.
Galatians 3:2-3
King James Version (KJV)
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
here paul is clearly saying that obedience to the word is achieved through the "spirit". and what is the spirit? God is Love. we are made perfect by practicing the spirit of love and that love leads to obedience of the word. when I John 2 says, "your love is made perfect by obedience" it is saying there first is love in the individual that is then being perfected by obedience, not that obedience produces love. |
With receiving the Holy Ghost, it comes with built in love.
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Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
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But I find, by experience and watching others, that love, just like faith, has to be developed. It is developed by being obedient to 'care for one another' to forgive, when we have been wronged. If we do not love our brother or sisters of the household of faith, we do not love God.
We are also to love those that hate us. The sinner, even when we don't feel like it. This is, because of obedience.
So it goes both ways, we love because the Holy Ghost has given us love, but we develop that love by obedience.
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