Love?

[Saint Jared Bell]

Do we love people by making and keeping extra biblical rules? Or is this just a thing that helps a person to feel powerful?

 

[The happy Objectivist]

I love people because they share and embody my values. The Bible has nothing to do with it. Love is my emotional response to seeing my highest values in another. Reason, purpose, self esteem, honesty, discipline, integrity, productiveness, justice, independence, strength of character to name just a few.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Do we love people by making and keeping extra biblical rules? Or is this just a thing that helps a person to feel powerful?

Welcome.
Love towards people you do not know translates to compassion. " Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
Blessings

 

[friend of]

I love people because they share and embody my values. The Bible has nothing to do with it. Love is my emotional response to seeing my highest values in another. Reason, purpose, self esteem, honesty, discipline, integrity, productiveness, justice, independence, strength of character to name just a few.

Well aren't you just a great wonderful person.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Well aren't you just a great wonderful person.

Why the snark?

 

[Semper-Fi]

Emotions like Love is a characteristic created by God.

God gave us the power of feelings so we can experience joy and love;
deep relationships; and even anger, jealousy, fear and sadness.
Without emotions, lives would be bland, flat, colorless—hardly worth living.

God, The Creator of human beings is Himself emotional.

God experiences love; He is love (John 3:16; 1 John 4:8, 16).
He experiences joy (Matthew 25:21, 23; Galatians 5:22),
hatred (Psalm 11:5; 45:7), anger (Judges 10:7; Psalm 7:11),
indignation (Isaiah 34:2), jealousy (Exodus 20:5; 34:14),
concern (Deuteronomy 5:29), grief (Genesis 6:6; Psalm 78:40),
sorrow (Isaiah 53:3) and compassion (Matthew 9:35-36).

God created the human race in His likeness (Genesis 1:26)
for the purpose of growing to become like Him (Matthew 5:48).

Proverbs 25:28 sums it up: “He that hath no rule over his own
spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.”

Master Your Emotions, Proverbs 14:29 gives good advice.
Philippians 4:8 is a summary cultivating and using emotion.

God’s love “is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened
by goodness, always slow to expose, always eager to believe the
best, always hopeful, always patient” (1 Corinthians 13:6-7)

 

[Tolworth John]

Do we love people by making and keeping extra biblical rules? Or is this just a thing that helps a person to feel powerful?

Depends who makes the rules and why.

It is an easy way of being different and of avoiding certain temptations, as well as a way of exercising authority.

 

[The happy Objectivist]

Well aren't you just a great wonderful person.

I am. Thanks for noticing. And you know what else I am? I'm a happy person who loves life.

 

[MehGuy]

I am not exactly sure what you mean by your question? I did not know that love makes some people feel "powerful". Personally, I do not derive the feelings of "power" from love. I consider myself a romantic sadist empath, meaning I am only able to register romantic/loving feelings in the context of pain and suffering. When a woman is not suffering the deep feelings quickly fade.

I actually hate being this way. It is hard to meet others who feel the same way. I do know since 50 Shades Of Grey mania this stuff has increased in popularity. Still, I have yet to meet people who need this stuff in order to feel love. I don't even know if the proper terminology exists for people like me. Only once did I watch a documentary where the narrator said some people are hardwired to only be able to feel love in suffering/pain contexts according to research. I'd love to see that research.

I guess it depends on what one means by "love". Recently I purchased a Nintendo Switch and "love" playing it and highly value the purchase. But it's not some deep emotional feeling. I do like helping people and have tried working on being nicer to others. Still, I do not really get some emotional thrill from it. Honestly, I feel a lot of emptiness from it and wonder why I feel an urge to continue doing it. Probably just evolutionary hardwiring. Being a productive member of society and being part of the "group" and all that jazz...