You are free to disagree with Scripture if you wish as well.
l Cor. 10:31. "Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
By exalting love above this command, it is Purpose Drivel.
Yes, the sum of the Ten Commandments is to love God and our neighbors as ourself. But, even that falls under the overall category of glorifying God being the chief end of man. When we obey God in his commandments, we are glorifying Him.
Question. 1. What is the chief end of man?
Answer. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
Perhaps you'd benefit from a study of
constructs and super-ordinate constructs.
I'll take Jesus' summary as more than adequate and all encompassing.
Last I checked, He is still King of Kings and Lord of Lords--placed by The Father, over all.
I'm more than comfortable with Jesus' summary.
Sorry you're not.
BTW, the false dichotomy is a very silly one.
Of course, glorifying God is subsumed UNDER
LOVING GOD WHOLLY.
Trying to glorify God without loving Him is to fail at glorifying Him
AS HE SEEKS TO BE GLORIFIED.
I'd have thought you'd have known that.
Brother, what's the difference between the Westminster Catechism's conception of the "purpose" of man, and the purposes that the PDL says we were created for?
1. You were planned for God's pleasure 2. You were formed for a family 3. You were created to become like Christ 4. You were were shaped for serving God 5. You were shaped for a misson (of evangelism)It almost seems to me as if the Westminster's Catechism's opening question is based of the same nucleus that the Purpose-Driven Life is - and the same basis that Piper's Desiring God (his magnum opus) draws from.