Selwyn continues to discuss the need to balance the two virtues – truth and love.
In John’s first letter we read [1 John 4:7-9, NLT]: “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.”
Selwyn’s conclusion is, I think, a challenge to many: “Those who are prepared to do battle whenever they think the truth of God is being compromised need to remember that though is is right to stand up for the truth, it is wrong if it is not done in a spirit of love.”
Too many people have caused harm, by justifying their actions on their interpretation of a truth – however, they never knew the truth; because as John says – those who do not love – do not know God, the one and only truth.
Don’t you agree that an important point has been made by Selwyn?
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Selwyn continues to discuss the need to balance the two virtues – truth and love.
In John’s first letter we read [1 John 4:7-9, NLT]: “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.”
Selwyn’s conclusion is, I think, a challenge to many: “Those who are prepared to do battle whenever they think the truth of God is being compromised need to remember that though is is right to stand up for the truth, it is wrong if it is not done in a spirit of love.”
Too many people have caused harm, by justifying their actions on their interpretation of a truth – however, they never knew the truth; because as John says – those who do not love – do not know God, the one and only truth.
Don’t you agree that an important point has been made by Selwyn?