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What do you think the lecturer means when she says “loving one another is based on truth”? Why is this an important concept to understand?
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Loving one another based on truth means based on God’s love for us. I should love others because God loves those people.
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That is a command Jesus gave us in the scriptures. Many times, in the bible it can be found that is the command for the children of God. It is an important concept to understand because love is how mankind was able to receive the gift of Salvation. One of the descriptions of love can be identified in 1 Corinthians 12:4-8.
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To truly love someone, you have to share the truth. You can provide correction in a loving way. We will love others, like God commands, but to truly love them means we shouldn’t tolerate different ideas and philosophies without trying to “rescue them,” just like the example of the child running in to the street. We can graciously speak truth and lead them to scripture, which is given by God for correction.
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Loving one another was a command for believers and is yes a Biblical truth. However, today, people use it as “blanket” to cover all bases. It is more a worldly truth when they remove the why? Why should we love? Well, Because Jesus made it a point often to express the importance of loving each other. When the worlds eliminates who the direction came from, they are eliminating the author.
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Love is interwoven throughout scripture. God calls for us to love one another over and over again. But love does not mean we have to accept the opinions of others as fact or agree with them. Culture likes this truth and promotes it, but it also disregards other truths in scripture at the same time. As a follower of Christ we cannot pick and choose which truths to adopt and reject. We need to be aware of this pattern around us and be able to differentiate between popular opinion and what God has to say.