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“"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few
But even so, love is it's own word with its own meaning. Serve has its own meaning, and obey has it's own meaning.
I think I see the point of the thread, to say that if we love God we obey Him, if we love our brother we will serve him.
But we can't just go around trying to re-write the Greek language.
Words have meanings. Without that, yoiu just pretend the Bible says whatever you want it to say.
Love in Christ,
Mark
God is perfect, but language is imperfect. If we spend all of our time dissecting words, we run into these imperfections, yet fail to recognize them. Jesus tells us that the sum of the law is love - He tells us how to love through obedience to God and service to our neighbors - in other words we are not supposed to sit around feeling nice thoughts about God and our neighbors we are called to action. Pretty basic! We are the ones who try to make each word magical and practically adore different angles and perspectives from each dot and tittle.......too bad we do not spend half as much time practicing our sanctification by developing skills like sympathy / perspective taking / empathy / unconditional love / forgiveness.
I really think Reductionism is the heresy of our day.........