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I am a fruit..call me love..
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I am a fruit..call me love..
..I've spoken with some angels..maybe demons too..maybe aliens,yep..maybe..maybe, just a figment..a ghost... I am all about love..I am a human being, kept as a possession by mankind..I am a fruit..Call me love..And I have NOT lost faith in myself..
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sorry not to bear with you but the notion of equating a statement of loss of belief in the existence of love with that of the existence of God is like ceasing to believe in Santa Claus because your wife laddered a stocking.
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We need to be careful to define our terms here when talking about belief, faith, love, and God. I don't like this question, but I'll bite.
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We need to be careful to define our terms here when talking about belief, faith, love, and God. I don't like this question, but I'll bite.
What exactly do you refer to by the loss of faith in love? Are you using faith to refer to the level of conviction of the belief, or a belief held in the absence of supporting evidence? Does this mean that the person no longer believes they will find love, or do they believe that love does not exist?
How is the person defining love? Is love the electrical and chemical signals in the brain when a person feels a deep and pervasive connection with someone else? How many neurons must fire off for this to be love and simply not "like"? Or can we simply use the dictionary term "deep affection"?
Next, how are you defining God? Is God an omnipotent, omniscient, all-loving being? Bear in mind that, just because a person doesn't hold onto the hope of finding love doesn't mean that they can't conceive of different circumstances. If God is omnipotent, than It can categorically do things that humans can't. Thus, even if the person in question believed in the non-existence of love, if this person believed in an omnipotent deity then they should also believe that this deity is capable of bringing love into existence.
Regardless, a loss of faith in love (in the colloquial use of the phrase) is indicative of depression and unhappiness and could very well result in a person losing belief in other previously life-defining things such as belief in a deity. Or, conversely, it could strengthen some beliefs; indeed, there is a correlation between living in undesirable circumstances and religious belief.
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I don't really know about "God", but I do know about love. I also know that my life would be very boring without it.
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Some define hell as the absence of God's love. Love is available to everyone as is God, the choice to accept it is up to the individual.
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Even in the Bible, love is a fruit. It isn't a thing in which one has faith, but a measurement of good living.
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Even in the Bible, love is a fruit. It isn't a thing in which one has faith, but a measurement of good living.
God on the other hand? I often get the feeling when some Christians talk about being told to love each other, that they are doing it out of obligation, and it's usually brought up in defense of some annoyance, and even then, it's performed as an act of pity. It feels more like emotional blackmail than love. But you'll inevitably find some nutty fundy proclaim that no, without god there /can't/ be love, and they'll follow that with some bullshit about how that measurement is actually counterfeit, as if they themselves own love. So in this respect, God clouds one's ability to love.
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There is the notion in Scripture that "God IS love".
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