Also, christian love is self-giving making it right to go out and help others instead of avoiding actions. Next principle is “love wills the neighbours good, whether we like him or not”. The love that fletcher is talking about is called, agape love. Agape love isnt sentimental or erotic but rather a desire to dog good for other people. Your neighbour is anybody, agape love shuld go out to anybody, not jst to those we like but to those we don’t like aswell.
If you ask a person to describe love, chances are they are going to give you a very romantic, very sweet reply. Even the bible has a lovely, poetic description of love, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Both Taylor and Bradstreet find eternal love in a masculine figure in their lives through these two poems. Taylor finds his love in God while Bradstreet finds hers in her husband. When Taylor says “Then mine apparel shall display before Ye/ That I am a clothed in holy robes for glory,” (lines 17-18) he is showing that he lives in the light of God. Taylor refers to his clothing as a symbol of the Holy Spirit and his devotion to God. Taylor adored God for his various manly qualities; such as strength, power of will, and understanding.
Abstract Clifford and Joyce Penner wrote a guide to sexual fulfillment using a Biblical approach and enlighten readers that the gift of sex is from God. The book covers multiple dimensions on how sex is physical, mental and spiritual and that it is in the context of marriage that they can fully enjoy one another. By guiding couples and helping them to really learn to know each other through communication is only part of the equation. The Penner’s multifaceted approach deals with subjects that most people only get to read about through the secular society. By incorporating God into the equation and helping people understand that sex is a divine given gift from God.
Secular worldviews often see human relationships as self-serving with an ultimate goal of getting ahead of the other person for bettering on oneself. In contrast, a biblical worldview of human relationships seeks to serve others first and place God above all else. Romans 2:8 speaks on the ultimate fate for the “selfishly ambitious” who do not obey the Word of God. Throughout the Bible, there are several instances of the ultimate human relationship found in Scripture. For example, Mark 12:31 states, “ …’You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’” as Jesus’ proclamation of human relationships with one another and God.
If we are able to do this, God will take note of our faithfulness by rewarding us with eternal life with him in heaven. God praises those who have the courage to do what is right and knows who takes value of his love by the actions in which we show. In the movie John Q, all the Beatitudes have been shown, and most of them have been ignored. Throughout the movie John Q is made to be merciful, to try and make peace, to be pure but mostly John has to fight for justice because of the problems he faces and the life morals he values. John can be related to every single one of the Beatitudes.
Lewis then goes on to say that we cannot simply do it on our own strength but to go to God for our strength. I feel like this plays a huge part in our society. With everyone around us telling us that men always think this way we feel like there is no way around it and that it is natural. But when we start saying that we don’t always think like that I think strength will come from that and we can overcome
She expresses that their love making is very intense and passionate. She starts by saying, “In the middle of the night, when we get up/after making love, we look at each other, in complete friendship/We fully know what each other has been doing,’’(1-4)Here, the speaker says she feels as if her and her husband have complete friendship. She then says, “we fully know what each other have been doing’’ which means that she and her husband trust each other. Also it means that despite what happens in their lives, they still see each other as friends and as equals. Their love making does not make neither of them feel ashamed or downgraded because they have a special friendship and comfort with each other.
We cannot judge God, nor his actions because he is a non cognitive being. Only God knows the future, and therefore when it is appropriate to intervene. Therefore, through miracles he is not favouring some of his creation over others, but the good of the whole creation itself. Furthermore, our free will stops God from intervening in every situation, because according to Swinburne, if we do not have the capacity to damn ourselves, we are not truly free agents. However this does not necessarily overcome the problem of God favouring his creation because by having the ability to intervene, but not at every moment he can prevent evil from happening to some but not too others.
Many people believe that morality is dependent is religion and morality is based on the religious scholars and holy books. There is no point in morality of God hadn’t set the moral values in the first place. However, some also say that humans only behave morally because they’re scared of God and any punishment to follow. There are several approaches that are taken when attempting to work out the relationship between religion and morality. ‘Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved?’ In Plato’s Euthyphro dilemma, Plato is asking ‘is x good because God loves it or does God love x because x is good?’ An example of this is murder; is murder wrong because God says it is or is murder wrong because it is wrong morally?