christian revival

P: What must I do to be good

I: simply follow The Law

P: What do you mean by The Law.

I: Well, the word “The Law” themselves are a convention that refers to the instruction that if you follow them, you will do moral right.

P: Well, if that must be what I must do, could you right down for me.

I: Love God and love others. This summarizes the entirety of the law.

P: Which is more important?

I: You misunderstand they are the same thing. For the one who loves God, he also loves others, and the one who loves others also loves God. Likewise, the one who doesn’t love God doesn’t love others.

P: I have people I love.

I: ah, but do we mean that in the same way. For it is said

13 If I speak in the tongues 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,^[b] 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.

1 Corinthians 13

P: Why would you quote from a book I don’t believe

I: Did I ask you to believe it? By no means am I asking you to listen and try to understand. For the bible, as much as you may not believe in, is useful for teaching, so let me teach from it.

P: So then give me your intuptaion to the chapter.

I: I will not

P: why?

I: because to give my intuptaion is failure to love God. If I love God, then I will leave all intuptaion to as God has taught me up to this point. So to do as you ask would only bring evil. I do not wish to commit evil, nor to I wish evil to be done on to you