Christians say they love their fellow Christians. I say, i love every good person on this planet :)?

Question

Yeah thats right, i love everybody worth loving ! every good human being on the planet deserves love regardless of religion they are, regardless of them being atheist or whatever .Even good people ive never met, if you're a good person i love ya ;)

Christians say stuff like " I love my fellow Christians " and to them it doesn't matter what kind of person that Christian is, its just that they are Christian they love them.
Thats not right .
Would you agree ?

Answer 1

True Christians understand the need to love everyone, the person, not the sin and the fact that those who desire to hurt us the most often are hurting deeply themselves and thus are in need of love more than anyone. This was the example Jesus set and taught but which most of us fail to grasp and find even harder to employ in daily life.



If only we could comprehend the Love of God in sending His one and only begotten son to redeem us from our sins (such as this failure to love the sinner while rejecting the sin), only then would the world become the better place of which we dream.



The problem with loving only 'good' people is that we then are the judge of what good is and we tend to select people like ourselves which then causes division and rejection of others, leading to conflict, misunderstanding and injustice such as we find all about us in the world today. If every man loves only his own, then everyone else becomes enemies and conflict prevails.



Is there a principle here we need to learn more about?

Answer 2

If true Christians just loved only their fellow Christians, the gospel could not be spread throughout the world. If you know some "christians" who only love their fellow "christians", then I'll show you some "religious christians" claiming to be Christians. A true Christian has the love of Christ in him and loves all people just as Jesus Christ did.

Answer 3

Love is the essence of Christianity, The groups who say what you describe should look at themselves, i am Catholic which believe all inclusive and should treat people all the same as catholic , non believers etc

That is why catholics drink alcohol gamble etc as we are just the same as everyone else and do not try to say we are different or better than others.

as a true follower of christ you need to love everybody and be inclusive with society, not try to be different which a lot of religious groups and cultures do. You only create enemies if you say you are different as opposed to friends if you say you are the same

Answer 4

While I agree with your sentiment, and that our love cannot be limited, agreement with your statement depends on how you define a "good person".



Is a person who because of a mental defect is prone to commit crimes an evil person? I have met gay guys who are extremely generous in all that they have (I was going to say "who would give you the shirt off their backs" but I know that would have been taken the wrong way). Are they "good"? Is a drug dealer/pimp who finally realized that what he was doing was totally wrong and was attempting to turn his life around but bumping into a lot of difficulties along the way a "good" person?



Edit: I totally disagree with your statement about who not to love. Christ made no distinctions, why should you. Personally I feel that we should love Satan himself as a creation of God. although not do any of the evil he constantly suggests to us. You have to separate the person from the deed. Love the person, but hate the evil.

Answer 5

Saying you love everybody worth loving is the same as the people who say they only love their fellow Christians.



It's just that they define "people worth loving" as only Christians. . .and you define them as "good people" but in the end it's the same thing.



On the other hand, Jesus asks us to love everybody, ESPECIALLY those who seem like they're not worth loving.



Especially those who we would otherwise think don't deserve it. Regardless of repentance or even acknowledgement of their evil.



Yes, that means especially those bad people who fall through the cracks of your generous declaration of love.

Answer 6

As a Christian, I would say those who have told you they only love their "fellow Christians" are NOT CHRISTIAN at all. The Bible tells us to love everyone...even our enemies. God Himself is love. If we love only those who love us or those who are like us this is not love.



May the peace (and love) of the Sovereign Lord God be with you.

Answer 7

The problem with that is that there are no GOOD PEOPLE! Good is the absence of evil, however all have evil therefore none are good. Christians love all people, even sinners.

Answer 8

???

Christians believe in "love thy neighbor as you love thyself"

Neighbor=everyone around, not just other Christians.



And obviously, the term 'Christians' is very general with multiple denominations and different values. But Jesus preached about loving not just your fellow 'brothers' and 'sisters' but also everyone around, regardless of condition.

Like how Jesus reached out to lepers and prostitutes.

Answer 9

Why don't you expand your awareness of what Christ told Christians about whom they should love and how they should love them?



Matthew 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.' 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.



Christians are called to remember that in God's sight no one is "good" because...



Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,



...furthermore, Christians can judge how a person's actions may or may not match up with what the Bible says is sin or not but they are to remember that it's only by God's power that a person can break the rule of sin over their lives. So an educated and faithful Christian thinks about passages like these when it comes to looking at other people who seem to be "bad" as compared to themselves...



Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.



4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),



So it's not "right" for a Christian to show love to another backsliding Christian just because they are a Christian but not show love to an unsaved person.



But it's also not "right" to only love "good" people whether you are a Christian or not because God says there are no "good" people, that until we get saved we are all lost sinners on the highway to Hell, and He commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves independent of how "good" or "bad" they might be and to even love our enemies and pray for them.

Answer 10

I'm a Christian and I try to love everyone...God created everyone in His image and he wants Christian not just to love their family in Christ, but the lost who haven't felt the love of Jesus.

Answer 11

You a nice person then. I pretty much don't want to be near most of the people on the planet.

Answer 12

I feel the same way you do! :)

Answer 13

"Love your enemies."



--Jesus