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I am thinking that it has to do with the heart is always responding to what is best for us by following our emotions that are also based upon the individual.
I think it has more to do with our love of self. The need for us to feed our pride, or our emotions of love to other people when/if we place those things above what the Word of God says. People can and do justify almost anything inside their minds and hearts as an almost self-protection type of mechanism when they don't want to hurt their own pride or feel the pain of something.
I think that's where that saying that 'there is a real fine line between love and hate' comes from. Only when you love someone so deeply, can they in turn hurt you so deeply.
This shows me that you need to come to a clearer understanding that if you are in Christ then your old nature died with Christ and was buried with Him. If you have a love of self and feel the need to feed your pride then you are living below your privilege in Christ. Your sins and shortcomings are no an issue with God at all. They don't belong to you, because Jesus paid the full price for them. If you take back a love of self and pride you are grave robbing, because those things are in the tomb, left behind there by Jesus when He rose from the dead.
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