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wrote:

> Bob Felts wrote:
> > wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Your "god" has no basis for "love." Love require interpersonal
> > > relationships.
> >
> > Does it? Does the Scripture not say that we are to love ourselves? Love
> > of self, while personal, doesn't seem to me to fit the definition of
> > interpersonal.
> >
> > If this is true, then the same can be said of a monolithic god. Right?
> >
> "If" is the correct way of answering. It is interesting that this phrase
> is quoted 7 times in the NT. "You shall agape your neighbor as your
> self."
>
> I think it pertainent to note that a counselor must know the telos of
> every passage that he uses in counseling. It is not enough to understand
> the grammatical-historical, biblical-theological or systematic, and
> rhetorical aspects of a passage. These are essential, and I should be the
> last one to say anything to undermine such work, for each of these
> elements plays a vital part in biblical exegesis. Yet it is possible to
> have all of these matters in mind in exegesis and still misuse a portion
> of Scripture in preaching or counseling. Thus, the story of the Seeking
> Father and the Pouting Elder Brother instead becomes the Parable of the
> Prodigal Son. More to the point, the two commandments to love God and
> neighbor are psychologized by those who want to add to them a 3rd
> commandment, "love yourself," which they then make basic to the other two,
> in spite of the fact that this is a thought repugnant to the entire Bible,
> and the clear statement of Christ that he is speaking of two commandments
> only, "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

Huh? The second commandment is from Lev 19:18, "you shall love your
neighbor as yourself". How can this be fulfilled if you cannot love
yourself?

>
> "Love of self" therefore does not speak to relationship.

Why not? It seems to me that you can have a relationship with yourself.

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>
>
> > > That your god is a singularity, he had no one to love
> >
> > Except Himself.
> >
> The witness of scripture for the beginning to the end, postures
> self-love as a product of sin.

Really? Do you hate yourself? When you do something wrong, do you want
forgiveness or punishment? Mercy, or justice? Do you want bad things
to happen to yourself?

> Man fell because his orientation changed from being God defined to being
> self defining. So to conclude that singularity does not contradict the
> Scriptural paradigm concerning agape love, is without support. In fact,
> it is hidious. It is satan