OH, and if you have not be able to bring yourself to the point of loving an enemy, are you willing to try and make an effort to love them today?


And I'm talking about "Philia" or "Phileo" Love —brotherly love friendship.
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forgiveness is possible. but cross me wrong and there's pretty much no love ever

>forgiveness is possible. but cross me wrong and there's
>pretty much no love ever

Why? If you truly forgive a person, shouldn't you be able to love them like the next person on the street?



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>>forgiveness is possible. but cross me wrong and there's
>>pretty much no love ever
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>Why? If you truly forgive a person, shouldn't you be able to
>love them like the next person on the street?

forgiveness for me is not letting it eat away at me to prevent becoming a crazy person

love is reserved for people who have my best interests in mind

does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

but if I did, they would not get enough of my mental space for me to care about them in my daily life.

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like, a regular joe.

what kind of enemy would he have?

his child's mother? that doesn't seem right.

the gas station attendant who gave him the wrong change that day?

his coworker?

his mailman?

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1. Your love frees you from ever feeling any stress or contempt for them.
2. Your love shows them the issues that lay within their own hearts
3. Your love can be transformative in their lives and in the lives of the people that see how you are able to love those who were your enemies.

Those three are good starters.


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>1. Your love frees you from ever feeling any stress or
>contempt for them.

i guess i get over things quickly. once i place you in the I DON'T ROCK WITH YOU LIKE THAT bucket, there's no stress or contempt onmy end. i just don't rock with you like that.

>2. Your love shows them the issues that lay within their own
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i don't care what's in their hearts or on their minds.

>3. Your love can be transformative in their lives and in the
>lives of the people that see how you are able to love those
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i don't care about enough about them to want their lives to transform. i don't even care if they suffer. if i don't fool with you like that, i don't care either way. you can hit the lotto or get hit by a truck and i'm still like \_(ツ)_/¯




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I can't think of anyone that fits the description "enemy" since I was about 14...

im not doing this with you today, but I hope you aren't positing that you're more elevated than anyone struggling to "love their enemies"

Stop the constant looking for negative all the time and stop trying to lightweight shade me on some BS.


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enough

i love them enough to let them live...what more could i do?

no thanks

Is love some Slave ish too?


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Excerpt Proverbs 21-22

That is why you are to love your enemy. It will either save them by turning them to your side or it will destroy them by standing as testimony against them.

You are partly correct in that you would teach a slave just the love part and you can see why.

offering to wash his car?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ky1yAIGB0&feature=youtu.be&t=2m53s


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dont have anyone in my vision who i would consider an enemy

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Considering the bible is a work of fiction your post is an asinine exercise in futility. You might as well ask in the same breath if anyone has had a snake encourage them to eat certain types of fruit.

Whether one believes the bible to be entirely true or not is obviously up to them, but seeing as how there is enough archaeological and historic evidence to prove that there are true elements mentioned in the text (e.g. The wailing wall , the Selasie family line , Dead Sea scrolls, and recent discovery of an item with "house of David" written on it) then it would seem that it can't be an entire work of fiction.

jesus tap dancing christ on a cracker, are you serious ? Much of it was taken from Greek and Egyptian mythology for fuck sakes.. SMH.. Look it up if you're brave enough, not my job to resolve the lifetime of religious indoctrination and brainwashing you were obviously subjected to to believe that a collection of books were written by a god.. When a minmal amount of research shows these stories were taken from the myths of other cultures.


Beyond anything else, the fact that people can follow a religion that is based on a god raping a woman is atrocious, twisted and bizarre beyond belief.

You have the audacity to suggest I'm ignorant when you are arguing with me the veracity of a book that features talking snakes and rules indicating you can't touch a woman who is on her period, a god that makes bets with the devil and puts a man through hell for the sake of proving a point.. Or the versions advising slaves to obey their masters. FOH.. a god that continuously throws temper tantrums when the people he allegedly created don't act the way he wants.. GTFOHWTBS!!!

That vile collection of books is nothing more than a guide for misogynistic and devilish deeds.

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Feelings aren't worth debating though.

And try my best to not let past actions negatively influence future ones.

>OH, and if you have not be able to bring yourself to the
>point of loving an enemy, are you willing to try and make an
>effort to love them today?
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>can be your's too."

Why would you want to prevent people from hearing the word of God?


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Word of the devil if one exists is what it truly is...

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307, nigga.

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So. .. yeah
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Not even sure how folks acquire those.

Philia would indicate a love for someone we're close friends with. the type of love we have for non-family members who are "like brothers". in order to have that kind of love you'd need to have a close relationship with that person. hardly something you'd have with someone who is considered an enemy.

Agape however denotes a general caring for people regardless of the situation. this is caring for other humans whether you know them or not. basically where charity, compassion and things like that come in. the principle of "love thy neighbor" would include your enemies.

Agape could be applicable for a very close relationship, but Philia (a Brotherly love) leaves room for support and general caring without having to engage in an intimately close relationship. So, again, I know what I mean.


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from Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words: “It is to be distinguished from agapao in this, that phileo more nearly represents tender affection. . . . Again, to love (phileo) life, from an undue desire to preserve it, forgetful of the real object of living, meets with the Lord’s reproof, John 12:25. On the contrary, to love life (agapao) as used in I Pet. 3:10, is to consult the true interests of living. Here the word phileo would be quite inappropriate.”

James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, in its Greek dictionary (1890, pp. 75, 76), remarks under phi·leʹo: “To be a friend to (fond of an individual or an object), i.e. have affection for (denoting personal attachment, as a matter of sentiment or feeling; while a·ga·paʹo is wider, embracing espec. the judgment and the deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle, duty and propriety . . . ).”

The Greek noun phi·liʹa (friendship) is found only once in the Christian Greek Scriptures, where James warns that “the friendship with the world is enmity with God . . . Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend (Gr., phiʹlos) of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God.”—James 4:4.

The Greek word used at Matthew 5:43, 44 "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" comes from the word Agape.

Like I said, I know my audience (TOKPR) and my intentions (patient and developing). I know that most people will not even approach Agape Love in it's fullness of self-sacrifice, so I intentionally set forth a conversation about the attitude to love one another in a brotherly manner first. I have no issues with opening the matter further towards agape, but y'all love trying to prove or disprove something that I say and always end up getting the way of the process. But that's par for the course around here and in the end we wind up with nothing accomplished because of that habit.

Shoot in the other post about loans, cat's can't even agree if they give, gift, or loan money, because a mug is always getting in the way of a process or is always trying to prove a point with out cause.


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i don't think you even know what you mean.

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"Jesus is my Lord and Savior. And if you believe in him, he can be your's too."

but fuck loving folks who are considered enemies etc

ridiculous goobly gook

of course you wouldn't


holed up in the house with a bible as usual

that describes the achievement of truly understanding ones enemies (in that case for the sake of combat strategy) as inevitably leading to loving them

theres also a moment when the protagonist is asked would he want to destroy his tormentor, and he clarifies 'i want him to love me'

iono as a sensitive kid i felt like i related to it, which of course was the point