Part 1:
The rule is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. This is not a good plan for some of us. I would never say to a neighbor the things I say to myself. Apparently, I need to learn to love myself.
Part 2:
A friend sent me a version of this; I decided to share it.
When you finally meet Jesus face to face he is not going to ask you to tell him about the two men who live on the corner who married one another, or the teenager across the street who had an abortion, or the couple next door who had a baby before they got married, or the woman up the street who drinks too much so neglects her kids. No. He is going to ask you how you loved them as he commanded you to do.
TTYL,
Linda
NO exceptions. Here’s some neighbors that are excepted by ministers and others with an agenda for power and money. Amp the hate like in WWII and our scapegoats are the immigrants of color, unless you can buy the president’s favor as a billionaire drug lord, he pardons those. But back to your premise, here are 100 bible verses commanding (I am agnostic so no judgment but the worst haters hiding behind the cross say the bible are commands and all must obey.) Oh really? So then they “interpret.” If they are going to talk the talk they should walk the walk here:
100 Bible Verses about Immigration
https://www.openbible.info/topics/immigration
Matthew is more direct:
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/who-are-the-sheep-and-the-goats-in-matthew-25.html
In secular terms:
“Do or do not do, there is no try.”
Yoda
For those that claim they are acting for god the violate the commandment that says not to take the name of the lord their god in vain, which has nothing to do with curse word per se but instead meaning doing evil in the name of their lord. You know like the KKK, christian Nationalsists which are no more than white nationalists violating that 3rd commandment.
I know you know these things but many online do not and won’t check, they never read their bible before now, why start when it seems it contradicts their opinions.
100 Bible Verses about Immigration Sojourners are immigrants.
That is exactly what He is going to ask. And that includes you loving yourself. And that seems to be harder than loving others.