OK, doesnt God just want us to love him?

[dolphinlove]

I see many arguments on this forum over the time im here, but doesnt God just want us to love him? He helped us produce the bible to help lead us, following it is not simple as we know, we are all sinners, but why did you not agree with his true church? I cant see faults in the church (yes there is some things i dont agree with, but im human and not God), why did you break away from his true church to another one, or even to islam or another religion if you have read the bible?

 

[dshix]

I can’t quite figure out what this thread is.

Are you directing your questions to a particular person?

 

[marcaevans]

I agree with the fact that God wants us to love him, as he has loved us but I too am puzzled about the context of this thread. Is this aimed at anyone in particular or is it to get a discussion going about God’s love for us and our love for him?

 

[Monte_RCMS]

As we read in the Catechism, God wants us to know Him, Love Him, and Serve Him in this world … and then to be happy with Him in the next world.

 

[livingwordunity]

I see many arguments on this forum over the time im here, but doesnt God just want us to love him? He helped us produce the bible to help lead us, following it is not simple as we know, we are all sinners, but why did you not agree with his true church? I cant see faults in the church (yes there is some things i dont agree with, but im human and not God), why did you break away from his true church to another one, or even to islam or another religion if you have read the bible?

To know God and keep his commandments is to love him, and God gave exclusive authority to the Catholic Church to teach us all that he has revealed about himself to us. God also wants us to love one another, and that means wanting the best for our neighbor which means that we want them to have an opportunity to know God and receive his grace. To do this, Christ (God the Son) gave the apostles (the first bishops) the mission to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. By extension, we are all called to evangelize the world to Christ and to his Church that was founded on the Rock. And we can do this by imitating Christ and the saints of the Catholic Church.

 

[Allegra]

Love is that statement is a verb. Verbs indicate action. Without action, “love” is just a feeling, which easily changes based on mood and circumstances. I think God wants the verb kind of love and not the noun.

 

[SteveVH]

I see many arguments on this forum over the time im here, but doesnt God just want us to love him? He helped us produce the bible to help lead us, following it is not simple as we know, we are all sinners, but why did you not agree with his true church? I cant see faults in the church (yes there is some things i dont agree with, but im human and not God), why did you break away from his true church to another one, or even to islam or another religion if you have read the bible?

Are you asking Protestants why they reject the Catholic Church; why they broke away? That’s the best I can come up with in trying to discern a question here.

If that is your question its not a fair question to ask modern day Protestants. Most of them are protesting nothing and have never broken away from anything. They, and preceding generations of Protestants have been raised in their respective faiths and therefore cannot be held accountable in the manner of the so-called “reformers” who did indeed break away, having once known the truth.

 

[JonNC]

I see many arguments on this forum over the time im here, but doesnt God just want us to love him? He helped us produce the bible to help lead us, following it is not simple as we know, we are all sinners, but why did you not agree with his true church??

I have two responses.

1. God wants us to do more than love Him. Jesus says:
   And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

I cant see faults in the church (yes there is some things i dont agree with, but im human and not God), why did you break away from his true church to another one, or even to islam or another religion if you have read the bible?

1. This presumes a dichotomy which I, as a Lutheran do not abide. And that is that I have somehow broken away from His true Church, assuming that His true Church is singularly and exclusively found in the Catholic Church in communion with the Bishop of Rome. As a Lutheran I see His true Church as the congregation of saints where the word is preached and the sacraments administered. That is, indeed, the Church Catholic, the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of which Lutherans are a part. While there is, sadly, division in His one true Church, there is only one Church.
   IOW, one does not have to be in communion with the Bishop of Rome to be in and of the one true Church. Islam is irrelevant, as the Church teaches Christ crucified and resurrected.

Jon

 

[fhansen]

I see many arguments on this forum over the time im here, but doesnt God just want us to love him? He helped us produce the bible to help lead us, following it is not simple as we know, we are all sinners, but why did you not agree with his true church? I cant see faults in the church (yes there is some things i dont agree with, but im human and not God), why did you break away from his true church to another one, or even to islam or another religion if you have read the bible?

Yes, there never has been good reason to break away from the Church God established. And the bottom-line purpose of that Church is to help lead us to the very love of God-as well as neighbor- that you mentioned.

 

[Publisher]

I think God is more concerned about how we treat one another…than how we “feel” about Him…loving one’s neighbor…feeding the hungry…caring for the needy IS loving God…“if anyone say he hates his brother, does not love God…how can one say he loves God whom he has not seen, yet hate his brother who he has seen?”

 

[PRmerger]

God commands us to love Him with our entire heart, soul, strength and mind.

The spirituality section here on the CAFs is the “heart” part. Posters there assist us in attempting to live our lives in the spirit of love.

The “mind” part is where apologetics comes in, IMHO. That’s why is imperative that we discuss and dialogue about exactly who God is and what it is he has revealed.

Catholics are commanded to do all: mind, heart, soul, strength. Not one or the other.