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Announcements › Forums › Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? – April 14th, 2019 › Self-love versus loving yourself › Reply To: Self-love versus loving yourself

April 11, 2019 at 8:18 am #8467
MaryBeth
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Self-love is always selfish – me, myself and I!! Everything is seen from the outlook of how will this effect me, what’s in it for me and yes, self-justification, self-will etc. There is no end to “me”! While loving oneself as a child of God is completely different and “self”-liberating. It is no longer selfishly about me – but instead recognizing there is no self-hood apart from God and so naturally loving God and your neighbor also as God’s child becomes the new norm. You begin to look “out”-instead of “in”!


Love is the liberator.