[metmom]

The world hates Christians, so why give your love to it instead of following Christ, who loves you and has redeemed you?

Because Jesus did.

The world hated Him and yet He gave His life for it. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son....

God did not call us out of this world. On the contrary, Jesus sent us INTO the world to preach the gospel. The only way the world is going to hear is if we go out into it.

We were never commanded to build edifices called churches and expect people to come into it to get saved.

[MHGinTN]

Why do you persist in pointing out the ways catholiciism is different from Christianity? ... The catholics reading such comparisons only grow harder of heart toward the Gospel of Grace which Christians have been told to share with all the World as they are in the world but not of the world? Do you really want catholics to realize what true Christianity is?! Why they might stop trying to eat God's body, blood, soul, and DIVINITY to get god-life in them! They might get born from above and get snatched away in he Rapture!! /sarcasm

[Campion]

Because Jesus did.

You're ignoring the word "instead" in the quotation to which you're responding. Loving the world in imitation of Christ is fine. Loving the world *instead* of Christ is idolatry.