Love is defined in various ways here in American society, but it has become akin to making accommodation for whatever anyone else wants to be or whatever anyone else wants to do. That is how love is defined to the American.
And this is nothing new. If you study the history of man – he has been adept at defining, or redefining, “love” in some way other than how the Lord defines love in Holy Scripture. And sadly, American Christianity has adopted, to a great extent, the world’s view and definition of “love.”
If someone is offended by what you say, that is viewed as not being “loving.” In fact, that is the paramount tenet of this definition of love by our society – to not accommodate yourself to whatever someone wants to be or to whatever someone wants to do is the greatest sin. “Love” accommodates all.
And this is a distortion of love. Distortion is the action of giving a misleading account or impression. And that is what American society and American Christianity have done to love. They dispel and dispense a misleading account or impression of love.
And their distortion allows evil to proliferate. The distortion of love aids and abets the proliferation of evil in society.
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