I often think that Galatians 5:14, or John 13:34 - 12:35, should be the WHOLE of the Bible.
THAT Bible would fit on a 3 X 5 card, or on the two sides of a business card.
At the least, these versus about the importance of love should be placed at the start of the good book with the admonition that anything which stands AGAINST the meaning of those verses does not belong.
Much else in the Bible has been used to bad ends, or led to confusion. But not, I think, the verses about loving one's fellow human beings.
John: 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. **
I often think that Galatians 5:14, or John 13:34 - 12:35, should be the WHOLE of the Bible.
THAT Bible would fit on a 3 X 5 card, or on the two sides of a business card.
At the least, these versus about the importance of love should be placed at the start of the good book with the admonition that anything which stands AGAINST the meaning of those verses does not belong.
Much else in the Bible has been used to bad ends, or led to confusion. But not, I think, the verses about loving one's fellow human beings.
I think of it like a shot of biblical everclear