Since you think everything is Love, explain the beauty you see in RAPE, child abuse, dead bloody soldiers, gangs that cause violence theft and murder, the taliban and terrorism, corrupt politicians and religious leaders. Explain the love and beauty you see in the destruction of the earth man is causing. Explain the beauty and love of suicide and nuclear weapons. Explain the beauty of police enforcement in junior and high schools. Explain the beauty of a mother who slices the arms and legs off of her 6 month old baby.
And I do indeed what beautiful loving explanations.
Why do you think they make helmets and people wear them???
Why do people wear different types of shoes for different terrain?
I love you too Star, I appreciate what you are trying to say and for talking to me about this, but some of this sounds like you are oblivious to the battlefield of the spirit(s). There are all kinds of bad spirits out there that have nothing to do with Love.
IF the world was full of love then your analogy would work. But it is not full of love especially Gods love.
Love is not the same thing as faith. Peace of the gospel is not the same thing as peace between Canada and the U.S. You can have love for someone and not be at peace. You can have a sense of peace and not have love and be at war.
Righteousness is not the same thing as love.
Being girded with truth is not the same thing as love.
1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Thousands of People go to court everyday to battle. WHY? So they can fight and win, with and for the TRUTH.
Scritpure tells us God fights our battles (if we let him), without the armor then we are not allowing Him to fight for us.
You mentioned the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is not NOW, but is being established through time. The Kingdom of heaven is NOW, and it is different from the time of peace as in the Kingdom of God.
When we love something, we are going to fight and work to obtain it and keep it. Life is not a magic carpet ride.
I join the army and the president sends me to Afganastan with JUST love, Bin Laden is going to slice my throat the second I walk out because he does not love me. We are sent with armor and weapons and not just love. And that has nothing to do with the bible, it is common sense.
To every aspect of the flesh, it can be compared to the spirit. That includes both love and hate.
As I said before the title Christian, liberal or fundamentalist, has nothing to do with this message in Ephesians.
Faith 4102 pistis pis'-tis from 3982; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:--assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
Salvation4991 soteria so-tay-ree'-ah feminine of a derivative of 4990 as (properly, abstract) noun; rescue or safety (physically or morally):--deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.
4992 soterion so-tay'-ree-on neuter of the same as 4991 as (properly, concretely) noun; defender or (by implication) defence:--salvation.
Sword of the Spirit 4151 pneuma pnyoo'-mah from 4154; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit:--ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind. Compare 5590.
5590 psuche psoo-khay' from 5594; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from 4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from 2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew 5315, 7307 and 2416):--heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.
Truth 225 aletheia al-ay'-thi-a from 227; truth:--true, X truly, truth, verity.
Breastplate of Righteousness 1343 dikaiosune dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay from 1342; equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification:--righteousness.
1345 dikaioma dik-ah'-yo-mah from 1344; an equitable deed; by implication, a statute or decision:--judgment, justification, ordinance, righteousness.
2118 euthutes yoo-thoo'-tace from 2117; rectitude:--righteousness.
Peace1514 eireneuo i-rane-yoo'-o from 1515; to be (act) peaceful:--be at (have, live in) peace, live peaceably.
1515 eirene i-ray'-nay probably from a primary verb eiro (to join); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication, prosperity:--one, peace, quietness, rest, + set at one again.
1517 eirenopoieo i-ray-nop-oy-eh'-o from 1518; to be a peace-maker, i.e. (figuratively) to harmonize:--make peace.
2270 hesuchazo hay-soo-khad'-zo from the same as 2272; to keep still (intransitively), i.e. refrain from labor, meddlesomeness or speech:--cease, hold peace, be quiet, rest.
4601 sigao see-gah'-o from 4602; to keep silent (transitively or intransitively):--keep close (secret, silence), hold peace.
4623 siopao see-o-pah'-o from siope (silence, i.e. a hush; properly, muteness, i.e. involuntary stillness, or inability to speak; and thus differing from 4602, which is rather a voluntary refusal or indisposition to speak, although the terms are often used synonymously); to be dumb (but not deaf also, like 2974 properly); figuratively, to be calm (as quiet water):--dumb, (hold) peace.
