Is it possible to love your spouse as much as God?
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Eph 5.25-27
[SUP]25 [/SUP]Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, [SUP]26 [/SUP]so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, [SUP]27 [/SUP]that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
No it is not a sin.
Rather to the contrary
In the Bible it is written
Wives must love their husbands like God
And husbands like God loves his Bride must love their women
For the married are compelled to the things of the world
While against the world are arrayed the knights that are virgins
With no regard to their own life they can uproot mountains and nations
But as Paul said if you are married it is no sin
I reckon it's true for I see God in the example
Of a good husband and wife with a quiver of children
The God with his children dwelling in his Kingdom
The hope and the promise from Genesis to Revelation
if your love for your spouse becomes an idol then yes it is a sin. If you would rather give your life for your wife but not your Lord and Savior you have an issue.
To love God would be to do His will at all times,and put His will above all other people,and things,where a spouse might have something contradictory to that and if the person heeds their spouse over God's will it would mean they love their spouse more than God,at least in that situation.
Adam loved his wife more than God when he ate off the tree of the knowledge of good and evil when Eve tempted Adam by showing him that it was alright to eat the fruit for she did not die.
The Bible says that some people have a form of godliness,but deny the power thereof,and are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.
Jesus said we must put Him above our family.
The Bible says for the men to love their wives as the Lord loves the Church.
When in a neutral setting we would love our spouse as much as God,looking at no agenda but them alone,but we have to put God's will above all people,and what they would persuade us to do,which if the wife tries to persuade her husband to do something not of the will of God,he should heed God,for if he heeds his wife instead then at that instance he loves her more than God.
Basically a man would have to love God more than his wife,for he has to do the will of God,and what He requires,above what his wive would want him to do,and it is His agenda he should heed,and not his wife's agenda,or anybody else.
We love God above all people for we do His will,and obey His commandments,and be Christlike,and it is His agenda,above all else that people would want us to do,and try to persuade us to do,and we dedicate ourself to Him in a way we do not dedicate ourself to our spouse.
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UnderGrace
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We also need to be careful to not put our 'ministry' before our spouses and/or family to the point of neglect. Many have made this mistake and it has destroyed families and relationships. Let's not forget, loving people is also loving God.
As the scripture says:
If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:20*-21 ESV
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Depleted
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Love for one's wife and love for God are not meant to be DIRECTLY comparable, notwithstanding Ephesians 5:22-33.
I am assuming here that you DO NOT have an erotic attraction to God!
The way you view your wife and the way you view God is different and it should be!
I am also assuming that your love for your wife transcends the sexual - and that is excellent too!
Yes, as men, we have an interesting responsibility toward our wives that has a parallel in the relationship that Christ Jesus has with the Church - hence the passage in Eph 5:22-33.
Nonetheless, our love for our wives, as believing Christians, should be an outworking, a derivative if you like, of our love for God.
As such, if you love for your wife is so indistinguishably close to your love for God then that probably indicates a problem with your relationship with God.
I am assuming here that you DO NOT have an erotic attraction to God!
The way you view your wife and the way you view God is different and it should be!
I am also assuming that your love for your wife transcends the sexual - and that is excellent too!
Yes, as men, we have an interesting responsibility toward our wives that has a parallel in the relationship that Christ Jesus has with the Church - hence the passage in Eph 5:22-33.
Nonetheless, our love for our wives, as believing Christians, should be an outworking, a derivative if you like, of our love for God.
As such, if you love for your wife is so indistinguishably close to your love for God then that probably indicates a problem with your relationship with God.
You are an absolute hoot - you should be on stage!I love two chocolate bars better than one?
Yes. I often think of this when I hear some love song lyrics- some of them should only refer to God. When I convert muslims, they especially have a hard time with this. Because a wife is trained to love her husband as if he is God. God is always right and good, your spouse is not. To Love God above all else is to love what is right, good, pure, and Holy above anyone or anything.
The model comes second- marriage is a representation of Christ and His Bride (the church). First there was an earth, then a globe. First there was a baby, then a doll. First there was a foot, then a footprint. All these things that come second do not compare in importance to the first.
He is the Father of fathers, the King of kings, He is why we can love each other (a husband and wife, a mother and child, a best friend- because He was all those things to us first. We love God by loving each other.
Yes, it is a sin (since you asked). You shouldn't love anyone as much as the Lord. Nobody loves you as much as the Lord.
God is to be loved above anyone or anything else (Mk 12:30). The way you love your spouse proves the way you love God (Eph. 5:25–33).
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JoDel
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I've been married for 38 years to the same man... I thought I could never love him any deeper than I did. When I fell in love with Jesus, I found I loved "someone" MORE than I loved my husband... But loving Jesus and being loved BY Him deepened and enriched my love for my husband.
"Is it possible to love your spouse as much as God?"
It surely is technically possible, even more than God.
It is also surely sinful. God must be first. Our love to our family compared to our love to God must be so small that it can be called "hate".
It surely is technically possible, even more than God.
It is also surely sinful. God must be first. Our love to our family compared to our love to God must be so small that it can be called "hate".
J
although I feel I have the better part.