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Migrations of the Holy and Gentle Spaces (Followers of the Way 2.8)

Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse

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You Love Your Neighbor

The good neighbor is the one who doesn't share any of those markers of national allegiance, and yet sees the need and does something about it. This is unself interested love, where passionate love is like for like a gape. And you can't love a neighbor using like for like passion because it will break down eventually. It's based on self interest. You can only love your neighbor through agope, un unself interest, unlike for unlike. Because there is nothing like humans and god. If god exists, and if god loves humans, if god is love, then that love has to be an unlike for unlike form of love. God gets nothing out of it. God does

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