The way you are interpreting it, Kosta, it is an empty Christian slogan. You totally ignore Paul's instructions to withdraw from Christians who wander after attempts to draw them back. You ignore the example of the Apostles and Evangelists to go to a community, to preach to all, and then to concentrate on those who respond. And you forget the example of Jesus who told some of His own nation that they were of their father the devil
As I said, "pearls and swine" is Jesus' metaphor, not mine.
So, given all of that context, what does "loving myself" mean? It means truly caring for myself which includes being brutally honest. It doesn't mean being numbly happy with any sin that I get myself into.
Well, that's what lip-service is—hypocrisy. The commandment to love your neighbor as yourself is an unambiguous and binding mandate uttered by what Christians believe is God.
It is not something they can wait for to "happen" at the "right moment," but a matter of unconditional obedience to their Lord God. You yourself even said not too many posts ago "Just submit." Easier said then done, isn't it? Humbling too (I hope).
You totally ignore Paul's instructions to withdraw from Christians who wander after attempts to draw them back.
I was talking about Jesus' commandments. Even Paul differentiates between them.
You ignore the example of the Apostles and Evangelists to go to a community, to preach to all, and then to concentrate on those who respond.
Again, the topic was Jesus' reiteration of the OT commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. And my question to you was "at which point would you give up on yourself", or, should I say, your loved ones?
And you forget the example of Jesus who told some of His own nation that they were of their father the devil
I did not forget it. From the Christian point of view, that was God speaking in his supra-knowledge of what's in our "hearts." In that respect, it should be obvious that he is the only one who can make that judgment, lest someone else wants to play God.