Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Love = God

"[T]he mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."
1 Colossians 1:26-27.

"Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?"
1 Corinthians 4:16.

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you?"
1 Corinthians 6:19.

"For in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being ... for we are also his offspring."
Acts 17:28.

"[T]he kingdom is inside of you."
Gospel of Thomas, Logion 3.

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
Luke 10:27.

"We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him."
1 John 4:16.

"[W]ho alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen."
1 Timothy 6:16.

Christ in you

Christ = God
Christ is in you
∴ God is in you

Love God by loving your neighbor

The godhead is unknowable
God is in our neighbor
Love of neighbor = love of God
Love of neighbor is the only means to love God
Love = God

But how can Love = God, who is everything (and nothing)? When driving north in the City of St. Louis on Hampton road toward Forest Park, one crosses Clayton. It is the road leading west to the City of Clayton (county seat of St. Louis County). The road is given the same name as it's destination. In the same manner, we refer to people by their origin. "Hey, did Jamaica the leave the party?" The question seeks the whereabouts of a friend from Jamaica (not the whereabout of the entire island). In this sense Love is God. Love is the road to God and a short-hand reference to the source of all.

p.s. "God" is our feeble human attempt at understanding the unknowable, the source of all, the godhead.

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