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Ethics & Morality
Love or Commitment? Which is better to have?
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<blockquote data-quote="JoyAlton" data-source="post: 77627917" data-attributes="member: 453598"><p>Here's another perspective I like. Love is an act of the will that expresses itself is good deeds toward others. So, in marriage, for example, the correct decision, when things get rough, is to use the will to do the right thing which always involves the good of the other. Secular society has confused the meaning of love to mean a feeling but feelings wax and wane. We are created to use our reason and will to control our feelings but society has taught us the opposite so that, when times get rough, we many times allow our feelings to override our will which often results in divorce. Then we find someone else only to often make the same mistake over and over simply because we do not have a healthy and correct understanding of love which is an act of the will to control our feeling which always change. In this way, commitment might be said to be a characteristic of love so that we use prudence and justice to seek to make the correct decisions which result in the good of the other. Now, having said all this, one could still say my words are merely semantics which is fine but I still believe what I've shared is worthwhile and has been missing from the conversation for too long. That is, love is not a feeling but an act of the will to make the best decisions for the good of the other. That's what Jesus did when He went to the cross giving us the ultimate example of love. God bless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoyAlton, post: 77627917, member: 453598"] Here's another perspective I like. Love is an act of the will that expresses itself is good deeds toward others. So, in marriage, for example, the correct decision, when things get rough, is to use the will to do the right thing which always involves the good of the other. Secular society has confused the meaning of love to mean a feeling but feelings wax and wane. We are created to use our reason and will to control our feelings but society has taught us the opposite so that, when times get rough, we many times allow our feelings to override our will which often results in divorce. Then we find someone else only to often make the same mistake over and over simply because we do not have a healthy and correct understanding of love which is an act of the will to control our feeling which always change. In this way, commitment might be said to be a characteristic of love so that we use prudence and justice to seek to make the correct decisions which result in the good of the other. Now, having said all this, one could still say my words are merely semantics which is fine but I still believe what I've shared is worthwhile and has been missing from the conversation for too long. That is, love is not a feeling but an act of the will to make the best decisions for the good of the other. That's what Jesus did when He went to the cross giving us the ultimate example of love. God bless. [/QUOTE]
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