As I said before, we are called to love unconditionally.
We are free. We are free to love all, as God loves us. If we are not free, then the only thing we are bound by is the world and sin. But we have been saved, therefor, we are free from the world and from our transgressions. We are not held down by anything as a slave is held down by his master. Rather, we are held *together* by love, and love knows no boundaries.
Love knows no boundaries.
Love does not stop at any one place. Love is not in one place more than another. Love is free, and love is forever.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Who are we to claim we know about love? Love is never ending. It does not stop at one person. We cannot hold love down, nor can we shove it in a jar and say "HEY LOOK I HAVE LOVE!". Who are we to say "Because you sin, you cannot know the full extent of love."? We should not cast one another aside.
Who are we to claim we know who God is and what He stands for? He is a just God, a jealous God, and an ALL loving God.
Listen to what God says now, even if he said something before. (And after all, if you don't, you could end up killing your son on top of a mountain)
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