2168a christianity - doctrine of love.... recognizing the deity of Jesus....

November 27, 1941: Book 31

Only love redeems, and only the teaching that preaches love can be addressed as a christian teaching, i.e. as the teaching of love of Christ, the divine saviour. christianity is therefore the effect of a teaching on people.... i.e. all people who truly live according to the teaching of love are followers of this teaching, i.e. representatives of true christianity. A person can also call himself christian if he knows nothing of Jesus Christ and yet lives his life in a truly christian manner, in the most eager observance of the commandment to love God and man. Conversely, however, christian thinking can be denied to anyone who does not make the divine commandments of love the principle of his way of life. And at present the world, i.e. humanity, can hardly be called christian, because love has become alien to it, and even the outward confession of Christ is often not decisive for christian thinking if the person is not at the same time active in love. The christian doctrine of love can also be followed by people who still have a negative attitude towards the act of salvation, however, they will not remain in their opinion for long, for where love is at work recognition is no longer far.... and the human being first realizes that he can never reject Jesus Christ; and only then does he consciously live christianity.... He does what Jesus demanded of people in His time.... he lives in love and is therefore a follower of Jesus. But the current lack of love is the reason that humanity is moving further and further away from God, thus also from the divine redeemer, that christianity is therefore in danger of disappearing from the world because people do nothing to free themselves from their lack of love, and thus they will also deny Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world, for those who do not practice love themselves do not acknowledge the one Who was pure love in Himself.... (interruption)

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