Love One Another and the Cross

[shazeep]

well, i hope you'll come to see that your innuendo and personal attacks are part and parcel with the theology. John, and even Paul, will lead one to Love if they will be led. What gain is there if you prove to yourself that accepting and understanding the Cross is paramount, and hatred and war are thereby justified? Even tacitly?

We term something "hollow" when it does not ring true. So, your arguments might be great, but if it falls apart when you vibrate it a little, use better materials! Like i said, you don't have to abandon your religious belief in the Cross, at least not all at once--but it will become more and more hollow sounding, the more you witness its fruit.

Find love, the hard thing--"the Lamb slain from the foundation" reflects this--and then you will reflect the Cross. And all that "you have to say it like we do or you are possessed," and "you will know them by how they argue Scripture" will drop away.