tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6825243.post764744314245178632..comments2024-01-06T07:53:11.832-08:00Comments on disabled Christianity: Mandella on loveJeff McNairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10029386598033932429noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6825243.post-18832548864742417252013-12-11T14:02:27.645-08:002013-12-11T14:02:27.645-08:00This really is an interesting concept as love shou...This really is an interesting concept as love should be the natural response to situations, circumstances, and above all else, people. Yet why are we so quick to hate? The simple answer is our flesh, our sinful human nature. Based on Mandella’s quote and my personal believe in the Bible and Jesus Christ, by our sinful nature we were taught how to sin, how to hate. This is then something unnatural we have learned to become “natural” to us, but I believe that we instinctively know that we would rather love than hate, that it is ultimately easier, and that it is ultimately better to love than to hate. We struggle against two thoughts of pattern, against two natures, but because we are once again made new in Jesus Christ after the fall of Man, we are constantly relearning how to love, and we know instinctively how to do so because Christ first loved us and demonstrated the ultimate example of unconditional, and sacrificial love that we all, if we are honest with ourselves, want, need and strive for. Therefore, Mandella is right that it comes more naturally than to hate because it is in our very nature and being to do so. <br />Commented on 12/11/2013Brianna Leifordnoreply@blogger.com