Can love be commanded?

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Feb 10, 2008 Faith and Works, Heart and spirit

God, in fact, does command us to love — to love Him, to love our fellow, to love the proselyte.

This is an extraordinary challenge to our modern, democratic emotions, no?

So, how exactly does that work? Avakesh explains.

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Jack Says:

February 11th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
“The idea that feelings no less than actions are subject to regulation is foreign to modern man’s way of thinking.”

I like where he is going with this already.

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