ext_21159 ([identity profile] matt-arnold.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] nemorathwald 2008-01-29 10:03 pm (UTC)

Loving God before loving real people is the problematic point. In fact, it's the whole point of this blog post. If you re-read it in that light, you might get what I mean.

But even if we get past that problem, you've fallen for a bait-and-switch tactic. The bait-and-switch is that they'll advertise one thing to you and then, after you've got some investment in that, they'll tell you what they really meant by it. In this case, "love". It sounds well and good. But you're in for a rude awakening. Jesus was very specific about what he thinks it means to love God, and what he thinks it means to love your neighbor. A lot of it was unhealthy. You can't cherry-pick from Jesus' teachings and still call yourself a Christian-- you then may as well call yourself a "loveist" if you do that.

The point of naming your position after the name of a person, instead of naming it after the core of what they taught, is that it's not about what they taught-- its about the cult of personality. That's why Jesus put God before your neighbor. Because he's God. The cult leader always comes first. The bait has been switched.

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