Hey all,
I am not an expert in Scripture like some of you guys, so I figured I would ask the forum. We all know that God loves all of mankind, no matter how sinful or evil. Does this extend to Satan? If so, are we to love Satan (but obviously not be influenced by him)? Are there verses that specifically address this? Just kind of a weird question that I wasn't sure about.
Thanks for your input.
We don't love objects, or things. In fact you will never hear me even say I love Pizza or I love my car. I appreciate them and thankful.
I love God, People and that is it. I don't love animals, I don't love pizza, my computer.
Well now Mike, I love my dog. You can't tell me that I can't love my dog. I have "Feelings" for my dog.
Let me explain something to you. That love in you shed in your heart by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual force. Not only that, it is a person. Do you not Know God is Love? Now to say you "LOVE" your dog, means you would give your life for that Dog and treat that Dog as if it were someone created just like your Father in Heaven.
Jas_3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men,
which are made after the similitude of God.
Now the World will kill someone to saved their Dog. I was seeing the news the other day, that a brother killed his other brother because he ate the last piece of lunch meat in the house.
We ought not to use the Word
Love loosely and out of disrespect. Love is not a feeling, but God almighty himself, shed abroad in our hearts. Love is a Nature, it's not a feeling.
The Master Said.........
Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
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Mat 22:37-40)
Love your Neighbor as yourself. Your far more important than any dog on the Planet. You were bought and paid for with a price, precious blood as shed for you, and we ought not say we love something, putting ourselves and people on the same level as a dog.
A Dog can't share and have the same love that I have for God and People.
A brother killed his sibling brother, because He loved a piece of lunch meat more.
Let me tell you something, that is the Love of the devil, to love things, over human beings whom Jesus died for.
We ought to watch what we say we love.
Now Jesus said, the devil was a Murderer from the begging and when He lies, he speaks of his own for there is no truth in him at all. ZERO. (John 8:44)
To love the devil, would mean I would have to love Murder itself and approve of killing someone over a piece of lunch meat.