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According to Paul, this is the ultimate act of loving - to lay down your life for your enemy (the world).

Hmmm, Jesus says that He laid down His life for His friends.

• Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13 (KJV)

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PetroniusMaximus wrote
According to Paul, this is the ultimate act of loving - to lay down your life for your enemy (the world).

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Hmmm, Jesus says that He laid down His life for His friends.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13 (KJV)

It is so easy to bend scripture and make "his friends" into "His enemies" (the world).

I bet we even have a Greek scholar that can tell us friends really means enemies

Consider this

Jhn 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

There we have the chooser and the choose

Not a rope in sight !

[PetroniusMaximus]

***Hmmm, Jesus says that He laid down His life for His friends.

* Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13 (KJV)***


That's true - greater love hath no MAN.

But Jesus is not *just* a man and his love exceeded that of mere men in that he layed down his life for his enemies.

Thoughts?