[suzyjaruki]

b-d,
Please read #103 where I posted the reason for loving enemies.

[blue-duncan]

I saw that, but I can't find anywhere in the scriptures where God says that, except when He is speaking about Israel. In Eph. 5:25 Paul uses the same word for the love that Christ has for the church that Christ says we are to express to our neighbors and enemies, an unselfish, giving love. When we begin to parse the sentence or word to express a sentiment an emotion or a relationship, then we devalue the command to love and instead of being sacrificial it becomes convenient or worse, comfortable.