tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276867951288764737.post3163942757519105083..comments2024-02-06T13:46:50.832-06:00Comments on For Christ's Kingdom!: The Chief End of ManPeter Bringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901261613782259514noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276867951288764737.post-57403713031885429202013-01-23T13:16:56.268-06:002013-01-23T13:16:56.268-06:00I agree that biblical love is not vague or unimpor...I agree that biblical love is not vague or unimportant to our chief end. I was referring to non-Christians you do use the term "love" in a vague, usually ungodly way. Thanks! -PB<br />Peter Bringehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901261613782259514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276867951288764737.post-12704131220897385482013-01-23T12:18:01.999-06:002013-01-23T12:18:01.999-06:00Peter, I always enjoy reading your blog, and I app...Peter, I always enjoy reading your blog, and I appreciate both the thought you put into it, and the thought I am forced to put into it. I have to point out that, though our greatest purpose is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever, love is not a vague principle. "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (1Jn 4:8)" It is our inability to be as God that cripples our understanding of love. Yet we are commanded: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (Joh 13:34)" To love as God loves? I pray that it will be!<br /><br />"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. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." (Mat 22:37-40)" Wouldn't the greatest commandment also be our greatest purpose? Of course it is, and it is the way that we glorify God. It's kinda like a "twofer!"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Doc Simonsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10491088737455985455noreply@blogger.com