What are some reali life examples of "whoever dos not Love,does not know God"

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What would be some real life examples please?
What does it mean to love in this sense?
 
Elena321 said:
What would be some real life examples please?
What does it mean to love in this sense?
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The more a person knows and loves God, the more impossible it becomes to sin, to harm ones neighbor: to kill, to gossip, to commit adultery, to steal, to lie, to be selfish and petty and jealous. It was driven home to me lately by a neighbor who, primarily due to jealousy -she coveted a possession of ours-and aided by substance abuse she demonstrated the darker side of humanity. Mean, paranoid, spreading outright lies about us to other neighbors, accusing us of every sin under the sun (many of them her own) and everything that went wrong in her world, watching every move we made-just weird. At least she openly mocked faith in God, another reason for her hating us which she admitted to as well to a common acquaintance-even tho we did her no harm, gave her no reason. Sometimes people act that way while still claiming to be believers. But it’s by their fruits that we know them.
 
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The more a person knows and loves God, the more impossible it becomes to sin, to harm ones neighbor: to kill, to gossip, to commit adultery, to steal, to lie, to be selfish and petty and jealous. It was driven home to me lately by a neighbor who, primarily due to jealousy -she coveted a possession of ours-and aided by substance abuse she demonstrated the darker side of humanity. Mean, paranoid, spreading outright lies about us to other neighbors, accusing us of every sin under the sun (many of them her own) and everything that went wrong in her world, watching every move we made-just weird. At least she openly mocked faith in God, another reason for her hating us which she admitted to as well to a common acquaintance-even tho we did her no harm, gave her no reason. Sometimes people act that way while still claiming to be believers. But it’s by their fruits that we know them.
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fhansen said:
The more a person knows and loves God, the more impossible it becomes to sin, to harm ones neighbor: to kill, to gossip, to commit adultery, to steal, to lie, to be selfish and petty and jealous. It was driven home to me lately by a neighbor who, primarily due to jealousy -she coveted a possession of ours-and aided by substance abuse she demonstrated the darker side of humanity. Mean, paranoid, spreading outright lies about us to other neighbors, accusing us of every sin under the sun (many of them her own) and everything that went wrong in her world, watching every move we made-just weird. At least she openly mocked faith in God, another reason for her hating us which she admitted to as well to a common acquaintance-even tho we did her no harm, gave her no reason. Sometimes people act that way while still claiming to be believers. But it’s by their fruits that we know them.
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Is there a possibility that your neighbour could have a mental illness that is distorting her perceptions or maybe the substance abuse has affected her brain significantly enough to distort her reasoning and perceptions?
 
Elena321 said:
Is there a possibility that your neighbour could have a mental illness that is distorting her perceptions or maybe the substance abuse has affected her brain significantly enough to distort her reasoning and perceptions?
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Yes, but I’m not sure why that makes the default position for her so blatantly evil rather than kind or neutral or whatever. To speak to her one on one she can seem quite normal and intelligent. To read her texts or hear what’s been said to others about us is chilling in its sheer falsehood vulgarity, etc. All self-serving and extremely narcissistic in nature in any case. And her husband, apparently an alcoholic and other substance user as well, plays along with and enables her stuff, seemingly too weak to stand up to her instead.
 
She’s done background checks on us and one of our workers who they decided is a drug addict pervert thief without even getting to know him (and have tried to get us to remove from the area), knows whether or not we have permits on work we’re doing on our house, threatened to sue us for this or that while coming off quite normal to most other neighbors. We found out that her family and close aquaintances do know all about this problem-and want nothing to do with her themselves. She sits and drinks and creates this whole world of stress and negativity and fear for herself-and spreads it to others. Again, we came into focus for her and became her enemy apparently because we had something she wanted, and didn’t have the funds to buy until too late: the house we purchased across from hers. She was still thinking/hoping we’d sell to her. We’ve considered suing for libel just to put an end to it but have held off, considering ignoring and praying for her to be the better course at this point.
 
Elena321 said:
What would be some real life examples please?
What does it mean to love in this sense?
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My own life is a real life example. I know that when realize I am less patient, kind, forgiving, and tolerant of others those are the times when I am more distant from God, ie, my prayer life and other devotions have been slipping and I’ve been sinning in other ways, too.

What does it mean to love in this sense? See Chapter 13 of the 1st Letter of Paul to the Corinthians to start.
 
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