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Love, Sin, Mindfulness
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lukethethird
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Mindfulness is for the birds.
Ella S.
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I do not believe so. Love is an emotion. Emotions are vestigial in man, because our nature is reason.
In fact, I might even say that love is often an impediment that blinds us from doing our duty.
In a general sense, emotions like love, sympathy, fairness, and compassion are useful in the sense that they help us understand why humanity evolved a sense of meaning and what the meaning we evolved is. However, these same emotions can be seen in less disciplined and less reasonable animals; they are really only a hint to the goals we should use our reason to pursue.
Being emotions, they are subject to extreme individual bias and a variety of cognitive distortions.
In fact, I might even say that love is often an impediment that blinds us from doing our duty.
In a general sense, emotions like love, sympathy, fairness, and compassion are useful in the sense that they help us understand why humanity evolved a sense of meaning and what the meaning we evolved is. However, these same emotions can be seen in less disciplined and less reasonable animals; they are really only a hint to the goals we should use our reason to pursue.
Being emotions, they are subject to extreme individual bias and a variety of cognitive distortions.
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MyM
Well-Known Member
According to the Bible, if you sin, you have transgressed the law.
Love is an emotion in the heart. How can one be held accountable for one's heart. No one can control that. But one's actions are a different story.
It's all very mumbo jumbo really if you continue reading. Sometimes the (verses) translations are really hard to even make out.
MyM
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But the Bible isn't based just on LOVE. Jesus taught that you must love one another...but that doesn't mean he gave up all the other laws. Doesn't mean that you don't sin when you got love. That would be so ridiculous.
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Love isn't an emotion. That's a modern myth.
Wildswanderer
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Ella S.
Well-Known Member
How would you define love, then?
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
God defines love as a verb.