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What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Thread Started on Jul 3, 2007, 1:10am »

According to the Bible, which is more important - Truth or Love?

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #1 on Jul 3, 2007, 6:08am »

Love wins:

Matthew 5:44
Mark 12:30-31
John 13:34-35
John 15:17
Romans 13:8-10
1 Corinthians 13-1-13
1 Corinthians 16:14
Ephesians 5:2
Colossians 3:14
Hebrews 10:24
Hebrews 13:1
1 Peter 4:8
1 John 4:7-8, 11

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #2 on Sept 11, 2007, 7:07pm »

Then why does every complaint-meant-to-prove-JW's-are-wrong focus on problems related to knowledge? I find this to be the case in every anti-JW comment I've found on the web.

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #3 on Sept 17, 2007, 4:58pm »

I could be way off base, but this is my thoughts on the matter:

JW's think they are showing love by shunning those who they believe are actively sinning. They believe that by holding back all connection and relationship with the "errant one", it is a scriptural expression of brotherly love.

HOWEVER... for the one being shunned, it's a death sentence. They are taught that they will die in armageddon, and even their family members won't help them in cases of emergencies. Therefore, in an effort to show the shunners how destructive their shunning is, they try to use reason, logic and knowledge.

If a person can convince the JWs of some of their doctrinal errors, perhaps they will be more open to recognizing the destructiveness of most disfellowshippings, thereby inducing a more loving way of handling things.

At least, that's how I tend to wrap my mind around it. Anyone else?

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #4 on Oct 12, 2007, 11:29pm »

So you're saying it's because many people disagree with the JW understanding of showing love? Which ironically, would still be a knock against their knowledge & not love.

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #5 on Dec 18, 2007, 9:57am »

Surely the JW method of showing love, as Tami has stated, is not showing love at all, but showing pride and cruelty! So perhaps people have a right to disagree with it?

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #6 on Dec 30, 2007, 8:18pm »

That view would contradict other views in the Bible. God is love (1 John 4:8) but he tells his followers to treat people unlovingly at 1 Corinthians 5:11-13? It must be loving to treat bad people like that. How else should such a plain Jane scripture be taken?

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #7 on Jan 9, 2008, 3:50pm »

wow. I don't think there is any 1 way to say it. (then again I'm new to this anyway.) I grew up not knowing much of anything about religion but from what I do know or from what I gather anyway. Love and truth are the same. But then again that is just from what I have been taught.

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #8 on Jan 10, 2008, 3:07am »

Love and truth aren't always the same. For example, I could be your mother and tell you that santa and the easter bunny are real. When you get old enough to know they really aren't real, you'd still have my love, but not quite the truth.

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #9 on Jan 17, 2008, 8:45am »

Tami - you mean that santa and the easter bunny aren't real???? Just wait till I tell that tooth-fairy!!!

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #10 on Jan 18, 2008, 1:31am »

Oh geez, there I go gettin' myself in trouble again! #sofa#

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #11 on Feb 18, 2008, 2:24am »

lol Tami I'm not really sure i get the point behind that but it is a good answer

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Re: What's more important -- Truth or Love?
« Reply #12 on Aug 2, 2008, 4:20pm »

Dec 30, 2007, 8:18pm, Upsidedown Logical Antelope wrote:

God is love (1 John 4:8) but he tells his followers to treat people unlovingly at 1 Corinthians 5:11-13? It must be loving to treat bad people like that.

Good point!

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