tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5649061077454800561..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Love doesn't scale - does it?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-36245040358651986112019-09-21T17:25:09.858+01:002019-09-21T17:25:09.858+01:00@Wm - That doesn't follow. You are saying beca...@Wm - That doesn't follow. You are saying because Jesus loves us (in some sense of love) then it becomes possible for people to love an open ended number of other people, when instructed; and organisations can be based upon this reality. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-7324750028449924422019-09-21T16:31:15.787+01:002019-09-21T16:31:15.787+01:00Does Jesus love us all? Then it’s possible.Does Jesus love us all? Then it’s possible.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-53421505064972808502019-09-20T19:33:49.747+01:002019-09-20T19:33:49.747+01:00@DR Thanks!@DR Thanks!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-2341286210221171052019-09-20T18:37:55.022+01:002019-09-20T18:37:55.022+01:00As a personal aside to you I want you to know that...As a personal aside to you I want you to know that I admire your efforts on this blog. I come her regularly and find it often insightful and frequently edifying. Please don't give up the work you are doing. None of us gets it right every time but I think you hit the mark far more often than most. <br /><br />Sean CoryDesert Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985993848922650013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-20180153087481722672019-09-20T17:52:54.026+01:002019-09-20T17:52:54.026+01:00I didn't write "indescribable". I w...I didn't write "indescribable". I wrote "virtually indescribable". The love of God is so intense, personal and all pervasive that no description in words can encompass it. Since defining or describing ordinary human love is something that poets, playwrights and novelists have been striving to accomplish for just about forever it is not, in my estimation, too much to state that describing a love that makes simple human love seem pathetically weak by comparison is out of bounds.<br /><br />Plus, having experienced this divine love I know whereof I speak.Desert Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985993848922650013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-44326991369348179502019-09-20T14:53:38.961+01:002019-09-20T14:53:38.961+01:00@DR - But that isn't how Love is depicted in t...@DR - But that isn't how Love is depicted in the Fourth Gospel - nor is it Jesus's teaching there. Love is not indescribable, but (for those capable of it) a matter of direct personal experience. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-39724965544309094342019-09-20T14:18:03.230+01:002019-09-20T14:18:03.230+01:00The God whose love for each of us is so vast, inte...The God whose love for each of us is so vast, intense and pervasive that it is virtually indescribable is the God who, if we refuse repentance and leave this life in our sins will see us consigned to hell. God's love is not unconditional. It is His very nature but so is truth. To offend against truth is to offend against God which is to offend against His love, and, having rejected His love by rejecting His truth we reject Him. And this is to choose to live apart from him and that, in turn, is to live in torment which is hell.<br /><br />God's live trumps his truth by way of His forgiveness and mercy. He is almost begging us to repent, accept his mercy and be forgiven. Yet it appears to me that the vast majority of us are unwilling to do this because to do so means having to submit to His truth which impinges on our pride as it puts strict limits on our prideful desires.Desert Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985993848922650013noreply@blogger.com