Do you think this is true?

Question

I think that if a person does not love everyone then that one does not love anyone because real love is a command not a wishy washy feelings based choice. .... also I think if our eyes are not filled with love then we are more open for attacks from evil for ourselves and the people we hold dear. Being hateful is like opening a door for the enemy to enter our life.

Answer 1

I disagree.  I am very clear on what both emotions do to me, both from the inside and what I see on the outside.  It is true that when you have a hateful outlook, it is difficult to feel love, but that does not mean it is not possible.  Take for example, a woman who has been physically and emotionally abused by her husband.  She ends up hating him, but still loves her children very much.  Yes, IF she carries that hate with her, it will affect her relationships with other men, but that still does not mean she looses her love for her children.  

Thinking evil thoughts, all the time about everything, to where you think no good thoughts, can and will take you over, IF you do not heed the signs it is coming and do something about it.

For anyone to say they NEVER hate, or have never hated any one, or will never hate any one, is ridiculous.  That person just has not been on this planet long enough to know.  

Evil always knocks and asks to come in.  You are the one who either lets it in or screams at it to go away.  Trust me, I do know.  Having knowledge of who your enemies are is never a bad thing.    

Answer 2

very true that's why I always smile and say hi to open the door for friends to enter our lives.

Answer 3

I don't know for sure but to take an example, if a boy loves a girl and someone else tries to tackle the same girl, surely the boy will not 'love' that someone else !! Isn't the sincere and true love that a boy feels for a girl 'real love'. How do you define 'real love' ? I mean how do you love everyone ? Unless of course, you're some kind of guru or something. I wholly agree that love is a positive attribute whilst hate is negative. Generally the love we see here on earth is only transient, shallow love. To me 'real love' can only be given by those who have truly understood that this whole world is ilusory, that nothing here is really 'real'. Everything we see is self-destroying, changing, disappearing. This includes all of us. All of us are heading towards death, towards destruction and there's no stopping. Nothing is permanent. The only thing that is permanent is the unseen. Only then will it be possible for one to 'truly love' everyone, because one then knows that everyone is going and nobody is going to take away anything from this place.

Answer 4

Yes. That is Very True.

Answer 5

Exactly. Your first statement can be found in A Course in Miracles.

Answer 6

Whilst iit is true that love is not based on choice, you don't just choose to love someone. NO,  I don't think that we can be "commanded" to love. Love cannot be forced

Love for someone can only flourish  when you get to "know" them. . The same way that our love for  God grows as we get to know Him more and it is only after we have this "love" that we will allow ourself to be commanded and it is not forced.

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EDIT: being hateful is a sin and when we sin God lifts his hand of protection off of us and that is what lets the enemy in.

Answer 7

That is nonsense.  The person that loves everyone, loves no one.  Actual love, is not a cheap commodity that can be spread like  seed on the front lawn, in hope that it germinates.  Each blade of grass must be carefully tendered to. That takes time, and total commitment.

Answer 8

I wasn't going to touch this one until I saw all of the hateful,

immature and secular based answers from across the board.

First of all your statement makes absolute sense to me

from a spiritual and biblical context/vantage. However, you,

2 or 3 others and myself are going to be in the elite minority

on this one..simply because the "evolved" and "intellectual"

mind doesn't find "logic" in any of these things which keep

us grounded.

Real love is a command.

It's not a choice; however, it is the free will to choose

whether or not to embrace that doctrine or not.

But every individual who doesn't love everyone isn't necessarily

hateful either. And what you say about being hateful does open the door for Satan to enter into their lives.

Here's the deal: We were placed on this earth to love every body.

That's the message and is also the Commandment. One can love everyone and still find room in their hearts to love their spouse, s/o,

children, parents, siblings, friends and other family members

differently and distinctively. Loving everyone doesn't entail lust.

It's about caring and having/showing compassion.

God, posed the question: "If you can't love you brothers and sisters

(everyone) who you can see; then how can you love him, who you cannot see?" That's our Commandment.

When Jesus came to fulfill the Commandments of God, he revealed

and attested: "...and of all these Commandments, I say to you, that the greatest Commandment of them all is to love one another."

Thus, for the most part..your staement is of the absolute truth.

But, again, I say: that not even most Believers/Christains would

hop aboard of that bandwagon. Why? Because it's just so much

easier to avoid doing the type of loving which requires undergoing

the tests..as you've pointed out in a previous question you've posted.

My heart is filled with love as well as are my eyes. When you see love

and experience love every where you look and go, you also spread love around like on the lawn, touching each blade of grass and producing the ideal landscape..to sum it up in a nutshell.

Peace/Joy

Answer 9

Yes......I agree  

Answer 10

I think I understand you. Real love isn't about catching eyes with someone across the room and lusting after them, or the simple love you have for your family and close friends, real love is the respect and kindness you show people everyday. Me doing some thing as little as giving up my seat for an elderly person on the bus, or holding the door open someone is showing love. It is important to show love to everyone and not choose to be nice to some and cold to others. And yes i think it's true that if we don't love, we are opening ourselves up for evil and bad things, as what goes around comes around and the way you treat others is the way you should be treated.