‘The real test of the love of man does not come until we love our enemies. The love of our enemy is only the love of our neighbour true to itself through everything … And there is only one source in the world to feed it and keep it alive – which is God’s love of His bitter enemies, and His grace to them in repaying their wrong by Himself atoning for them on the cross’ (P T Forysth, The Cruciality of the Cross, 166-7)
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The love of our enemy is only the love of our neighbour true to itself through everything
Great point!
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It is only our ego’s requirement for separation (them and us) which creates enemies. The sad thing regarding religion is that it can create a them and us mentality between different faiths. The message preached by each faith is generally the same (to love thy neighbour) but it is our ego which causes us to perceive our ‘different’ neighbours as wrong, innacurate or inferior in terms of their beliefs.
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