The Responsible Christian

 The most important of these is to love YHVH with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.  Christians rarely love YHVH at all. Most Christians love Christ because of what he did for them, but I don't believe that is love. John 15:13 explains true love, selfless love. Love is not earned, it is given freely, without expectations. True love is a choice, not a feeling.   We throw the word love around without truly understanding what it means to love. We say we love chocolate or we love a movie but in reality we only enjoy these things because of the way they make us feel. We apply that same principle to relationships. Divorce is now more commonplace than ever or marriage is simply forgone all together. Premarital sex is standard dating protocol in order to determine a partners ability to satisfy our "needs".   We are told by the church that if we are not happy and fulfilled to simply divorce or separate from the relationship because God wa...

 Gal 5:16 - But I say, Live by the spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.  The church is teaching that God knew us when He made us and that he loves us and put in us the desires within. They are proclaiming that we can live our lives pursuing the desires of our heart, claiming that God put in us every thought we have. Just as the church in the time of Christ was represented as the fig tree, giving the impression of fruitfulness, but in truth upon inspection there was no spiritual fruit. Christ cursed the fig tree for its deception and attacked the church for becoming a den of thieves. I can not argue with the church, I can not say that God is or is not speaking through the church, I can only reflect inward and read the Word for myself. And when I do that I simply can not believe that God wants us to pursue every desire of our heart, unless our hearts desire is to pursue God.   Gal 5:17 For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and ...