Did Paul gave us the definition of love here? This is the first time in the history of humanity that someone did it isn't it? >If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
>4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
>8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
>13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
TELL THAT TO SAINT TERESA OF AVILA “Bad confessions damn the majority of Christians.” -Saint Teresa of Avila Also if you fail to examine your soul throughally you can miss sins (thus damning yourself--keep in mind you are responsible for all the good you fail to do, not just the bad things you do), you can fail to show appropriate contrition and just merely go through the motions of confession without fervent repentance. Bad confessions damn the majority of Christians.
>expecting a cosmic being that is not "human" to 'love' or 'care' about mortals who might be seen just as other animals and whose entire lifespans are probably a blink of an eye to the almighty gods.
NGMI
but to each their own, i respect Christian s though. kino religion
Robert Green
Indians make remarkable Roman Catholics. It's the Hindus who act like petty insects
