Or he was scolding those whose narcissism did not allow themselves to consider the needs of others. I fail to comprehend the ways in which Christ loved himself. Jesus never preached self love except as the foundation of sin. Self love yields all sorts of abuse. Love God above all and His love will flow into you in sufficiency.
You seem to want to believe you are capable of goodness. That is only true so long as God has no place in your life. Surrender the notion that you are capable of self improvement and allow God to use you in what ever way He chooses. By no means should you center your hope on self love.
LOL, so "love your neighbor as yourself" is a scolding for narcissism?!
Wow, billions of people have been completely fooled for two thousand years, and finally - finally - you cleared this up!
I fail to comprehend the ways in which Christ loved himself. Jesus never preached self love except as the foundation of sin. Self love yields all sorts of abuse. Love God above all and His love will flow into you in sufficiency.
As I posted, from the Bible, Jesus COMBINED the two concepts - loving God and loving our neighbors. YOU separate them.
You seem to want to believe you are capable of goodness. That is only true so long as God has no place in your life. Surrender the notion that you are capable of self improvement and allow God to use you in what ever way He chooses. By no means should you center your hope on self love.
I am capable of goodness so long as God has no place in my life?
Loving my neighbor as myself is a scolding for narcissism?
You divide Jesus command to love God AND each other because YOU fail to comprehend it?
I will no longer listen to your absolute reversal of Jesus's teachings. I find what you say to be a perversion of everything Jesus said.
BY YOUR LOGIC, your words, your teachings do not come from God or Jesus or goodness, but your own sin. By your logic, and what you have told me, the only way you can presume that what you are saying is true and from God's love is if you have rejected God. By your logic and teachings, you have no business posting here or teaching anything, for you can know nothing, and should abase yourself before God.
Denying the heart of love from human beings is satanic - and that's exactly what you argue. The Bible says God mad us "in His image" - that image is love.
Keep your hell and death and horror and self-hatred away to yourself - no one in the universe wants it. It is your own foul creation. I reject you utterly.
Get thee behind me.