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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Not to derail the thread" means "I will now derail the thread".
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Yep.  I'm the minister who simply shared her favorite verse and her reasons for loving it.

In response I will simply say this -  When you love others, you are loving God. Your Christ said whatever you do to others, you do to me.  Like Jesus, we are a part of God.   If you love others, you are loving God.  It is impossible to separate the two. It would be like loving the waves but hating the ocean. The waves are a part of the ocean. We are a part of our creator.  And we are a part of each other.  When I look at another human, I Am looking at God. The separation you see is an illusion.

So yes, evangelical poster, "Love one another" sums up the entirety of the message of Christ.[/quote]
I do not think you are right. God is holy and perfect. I am not. God created me. He stands above His creation. I am subject to death and decay, and it is only by trusting in Christ as God that I am saved from that. Jesus Himself separated Himself from His creation in the passage in John 8 that I quoted above, where he said that He is from above and his interlocutors are from below.

I am sincerely interested: Could you please offer a commentary, in light of your above statement, on John 8, wherein Christ tells the religious leaders who are seeking to kill him that they are of their father, the Devil (John 8:44)? If we are all one, why would Christ say that? Chris undoubtedly loved even these leaders who wanted Him dead, but he didn't mince words about what was wrong with them.

What you are suggesting is that mankind is part of God. But mankind is capable of extreme ugliness, cruelty and brutality. To make that a part of God is to bring God lower than He is. I, for one, am glad to worship a God who is above mankind, but loves mankind nevertheless. [/quote]

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