Zone1 How do you "love others as yourself"?

[Woodznutz]

You learn to love yourself first, caring for your own needs. After those needs are satisfied you can help others with their needs. Sacrificing your own needs for others is a zero-sum game.

 

[1srelluc]

That was very poorly written. The magic book is full of such poorly written stuff.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

You learn to love yourself first, caring for your own needs. After those needs are satisfied you can help others with their needs. Sacrificing your own needs for others is a zero-sum game.

Self focus is where you fail.
Just do no harm to others -- ALL CREATURES --you wouldn't do to yourself.

You don't have to "sacrifice yourself" neither do you "satisfy your needs first"

Is it cold, and you know someone who doesn't have a coat? You don't have to go out and buy him one, but if you have another, give it to them
It ain't that hard

Spend time actually reading what He said. We are without excuse

 

[Woodznutz]

Self focus is where you fail.
Just do no harm to others -- ALL CREATURES --you wouldn't do to yourself.

You don't have to "sacrifice yourself" neither do you "satisfy your needs first"

Spend time actually reading what He said. We are without excuse

Self-focus is absolutely necessary for spiritual growth.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

LSelf-focus is absolutely necessary for spiritual growth.

Not in the self centered context you're using it.

To "find yourself ' you must "lose yourself". To LIVE, the SELF must DIE

“Whoever loves his life loses it, whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”

 

[Woodznutz]

Not in the self centered context you're using it.

To "find yourself ' you must "lose yourself". To LIVE, the SELF must DIE

Everyone is "self-centered". Sadly, it's usually misguided and destructive.

God exhorts us to prepare ourselves for good works. He doesn't say prepare your neighbor. This requires careful attention to oneself. We are very valuable to God. We should reflect this in the way we treat ourselves.

 

[Woodznutz]

“Whoever loves his life loses it, whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”

The word for love in this verse is phileo, not agape.

 

[Woodznutz]

Self focus is where you fail.
Just do no harm to others -- ALL CREATURES --you wouldn't do to yourself.

You don't have to "sacrifice yourself" neither do you "satisfy your needs first"

Is it cold, and you know someone who doesn't have a coat? You don't have to go out and buy him one, but if you have another, give it to them
It ain't that hard

Spend time actually reading what He said. We are without excuse

You don't give another your only coat as that still leaves one in the cold, a zero-sum game. However, if you have "prepared yourself for good works" you will have the resources to provide a coat.

 

[Votto]

That was very poorly written. The magic book is full of such poorly written stuff.

Actually, it was poorly read

The Good Samaritan is the example Christ gave regarding loving others. Here we had a man dying on the side of the road and lifeless. Passers by did not move to help the man, except the one person that was his natural enemy, which was a Samaritan from the Northern Kingdom.

There is no relationship between the two even, except for the Samaritan seeing that a man made in the image of God needed help and he helped them. Not one word was spoken between these two strangers.

God is telling us that love in not a feeling, it is a choice.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Everyone is "self-centered". Sadly, it's usually misguided and destructive.

God exhorts us to prepare ourselves for good works. He doesn't say prepare your neighbor. This requires careful attention to oneself. We are very valuable to God. We should reflect this in the way we treat ourselves.

You do. What don't you understand and how does that relate to you topic