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love as obedience
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diagnosis
Paul's definition of love is interpreted as a rhetorical conversion of affection into endurance, submission, and obedience.
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Jiang says original sin makes people slaves of the devil, while Jesus' loving mastery makes them slaves to Jesus.
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diagnosis
The church then forbids questioning authority by naming disobedience evil.
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"Irritable and resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoice in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,..."
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"But now because he loves you, you must obey him completely. And that means never ever question the authority of the church. Never ever..."
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"my beloved, be steadfast and movable, always excelling in the works of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is..."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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