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Originally Posted by awareness
But he still loves me. And I him. Love covers.
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Listening to the simple basic message of Jesus, "
love your enemy, love your neighbor as yourself," all the knowledge in the world should not undermine God's message. In I Cor 13, Paul had something similar to say about this.
Why is it that all too often, Christian leaders like Lee begin to build walls around their little empires by altering this rudimentary command of our Lord, and equipping their followers to critique those on the
other side of the wall? As Paul has said, "
knowledge puffs up and divides, but love builds up and unites."
I actually love the way Lee's take on I Cor 15.45 and Rom 8.6 helped to revolutionize my views of God close to 40 years ago.
Maybe it was never the actual teaching on these verses that changed me, but the Spirit Himself! These verses made me alive in Christ! They made the Lord so near to me! But take away the Spirit of reality, and we are left with dead doctrines condemning "poor, poor Christianity" and an elite group of people puffed up with pride.