***Christians*** Which is More Important to you?

Holiness or Love?

Is God the same way? How do you know?

Love is more important and is the more difficult of the two.

If holiness means having Gods approval then holiness. Love is generally the work and self sacrifice and holiness the reward, who doesn't like the pay more than work?

RedDragon94 said:

Can't a person know what love is apart from Christianity?

So it's about the reward?

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Yes, they were smart enough to want the reward back in the day. Paul the Apostle basically says people know how to do right. You don't need Christianity to know how to do right, but if you want the reward you'd better do it.

Kemosloby said:

Yes, they were smart enough to want the reward back in the day. Paul the Apostle basically says people know how to do right. You don't need Christianity to know how to do right, but if you want the reward you'd better do it.

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So, in essence the relationship between the Christian and God is merely contractual? You hold up your end of the deal and he makes sure you have a place in heaven?

RedDragon94 said:

So, in essence the relationship between the Christian and God is merely contractual? You hold up your end of the deal and he makes sure you have a place in heaven?

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In essense, it's not a contract though, no legal obligation, it's by a promise that God said he would do that.

Kemosloby said:

In essense, it's not a contract though, no legal obligation, it's by a promise that God said he would do that.

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Is it in writing?

RedDragon94 said:

Is it in writing?

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Other people wrote it down and it's not signed.

I don't see how holiness and love can possibly be separated from one another. Telling me to pick between holiness and love is like offering me a grilled cheese sandwich and telling me to choose whether I want the bread or the cheese. If you are holy, you are loving. If you are loving, you are holy. Period. If you don't have love, you're not holy. You're just a whitewashed tomb, and you have no share in God's light (1 John 2:9-11). "And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:2-3)