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I hate the contempt we show towards each other. How can we honestly believe one person's life is less than another's? GOD created mankind to Love. HE only asked that we trust HIM. HE created us in HIS Image. We are called to Love GOD and Love people the same way we Love ourselves, which is the way GOD Loves us. Unconditionally.
Who are we to take up a weapon and kill someone just because we disagree with their point of view? Or don't like the color of their skin? Or got angry because someone looked at you? Or just because?
The hated spewed throughout the headlines is sickening. More focused on sensationalism than truth. Slinging accusations, presenting half-truths and lies as facts. Tearing one another down. There is enough pain as it is without us adding to it.
We are supposed to be walking in Love, trusting GOD and helping each other, not proving The Accuser right.
BEFORE THE CROSS
Zechariah 3:1 Then he showed me the high priest Joshua standing before The Angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at HIS Right side to accuse him.
AFTER THE CROSS
Revelation 12:10: "And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, 'Now the Salvation and the Power and the Kingdom of our God, and the Authority of HIS Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been cast down, who accused them day and night before our God'".
THE CALL TO LOVE
Matthew 22:36-40: to love God with all one's heart, soul, and mind, and to love one's neighbor as oneself.
John 13:34: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another".
CLAIMS TO LOVE GOD BUT HATES OTHERS
John 4:20: "If anyone says, “I love GOD,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love GOD whom he has not seen".
1 John 3:15: "Whoever hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in them".
1 John 2:9-11 "establishes a clear connection between true faith and the practice of Love for fellow believers, stating that anyone who claims to be in the "light" of Christ but hates their "brother" (another believer) is actually still in spiritual "darkness" and spiritually blind."
***It's sad when Artificial Intelligence gets it but we don't.