When is true love found between a man and a woman?

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

When is true love found between a man and a woman?

True love is found between a man and a woman when there is a confirmation from God in the hearts of each of them (both of them) that God has led them to walk together and to serve Him. Note that God has built safeguards into the Church and the home to avoid pitfalls. A man or a woman who is consideration marriage, or even just dating, should be very cautious if the parents whom God has placed over them or the elders of the church whom God has placed over them have any reservations. God gives anointing for this purpose to all whom He sets in authority in His Body. The home is part of the Body of Christ.

Satan, in the meantime, is throwing out every type of false signal to confuse the issue. If a man is looking for a woman or a woman is looking for a man, they will have trouble discerning the will of God. When both the man and the woman are seeking Jesus Christ, then God will take care of the leading. To avoid the leading of God or to try to follow one's own will instead of God's will is the source of all human miseries.

Love and faith are linked together. If you don't want to be deceived, then you need to keep your eyes open--spiritual eyes, that is. All wisdom comes from God. In fact, 1 Corinthians 1:30 tells us that Jesus Christ is our wisdom. Then, it tells us of the three components of wisdom, which are righteousness, holiness, and redemption. What's that got to do with love? Righteousness is the working of love in the moment. Righteousness is always a free gift that comes by faith. Faith always comes by hearing God and acknowledging Him. Holiness comes as the result of allowing God to repeatedly do His righteousness through you, thinking His thoughts, saying His utterances, and doing His works. Holiness is love that you become as you are conformed to the pattern of Jesus Christ. Redemption is the freedom from that which is not love. It is freedom from our natural sinful nature and it comes from glory to glory along with holiness.

At this point, we should establish a basis for knowledge then define the terms, love and faith. If we don't do that, everything will be confusing.

How can we know anything about anything, let alone love and faith? In a world that has fallen into naturalism (the unfounded belief that nothing that happens is from a spiritual cause read and materialism (the unfounded belief that nothing is spiritual read and scientism (the unfounded belief that science is the final determiner of what is real and what is not read , we should establish that all three of these are irrational [insane] beliefs. If we start to define such things as love and faith using the precepts of a fallen creation and the current dying system, we will end up with false hope and nothing that can help us. So, we base our knowledge on those things that have been and are being revealed to us by God. God speaks. He speaks to us through the Bible, through Christians, and any other way that He chooses to.

What is true love between a man and a woman? True love is spiritual as opposed to the temporary false love that is promoted in movies. You know about this false love. It's the kind that makes everyone so happy for a while then makes them miserable. Sometimes, it's called infatuation. This is the love at first site thing that is romanticized in songs but that does not work out well in real life. It is actually a chemical reaction that God designed into every man and woman so that they would be attracted to each other, but it can easily go off the tracks. For instance, viewing pornography or looking at various women with sexual thoughts can make it impossible for a man to find true love. They have trouble sorting out their thoughts. They don't know if they are "in love" or just lusting after a woman. This can really get mixed up and result in all kinds of spiritual disorders. The same holds for women. On the other hand, when a man becomes angry with a woman (or anyone), that man can drag those emotions into all his future relationships. When he drags this into a romantic relationship, he can end up dragging it into his marriage. This will assure him and his wife of a miserable marriage. The same applies to women and anger. Don't let the sun go down on your strong negative emotion. Forgive everyone immediately.

So, what is real love between a man and a woman? Real love always involves God because God is love. There is no love without God. He is the source of all love because He is love. To say it another way, you can't have real love without God. You can, however, have something called natural affection. This is something that God built into human beings. It is the tendency to care for those of their own family or close friends. This natural affection can fail under stress. True love never fails. You can also have eros without God. Eros is a selfish desire that takes rather than giving. It can give if it sees that it will eventually get what it wants by giving. This is the kind of love that makes a man or a woman have sex outside of marriage. It is actually the opposite of true love. Perhaps that is why those who engage in sex before marriage are much less likely to have a successful marriage. Then there is the kind of love that is based on mutual interests. It is more like friendship than love. There is nothing wrong with this, and it is best to marry someone with interests that are like your own interests.

All the things that Romans 13 says about love are also true of true love between a man and a woman. Read that carefully and ask God to reveal it to you more deeply. You will find, if you do this, that your understanding of it will deepen over the years every time you read it.

Search and find the love that's real and genuine and true.
Search and find fulfillment and the love that's right for you.
How often earthly love has broken hearts that were sincere.
How many have reached out for love and now withdraw in fear. Read teh entire poem here.

For more songs and poems like this go to the Love and Marriage and Wedding Song Book.

Here is the secret to finding the right person to share your whole life with. First, forget about all the silly ways that the worldly try to find someone. Why would you want to do what doesn't work for anyone else except for the fantasies on TV? Rather, just run toward Jesus as hard and as fast as you can. As you run, when you notice another one who is running along side of you, take another look at that one. God will bring someone. Wait for them.

There may be someone who seems attractive to you. Can you discern them as part of the Body of Christ? Does this person have Christ in his or her heart? Are they walking in the power of Christ? Do you share the same faith? These are the basics. To have the kind of marriage that Christ designed, your home must be the basic governmental unit of the Body of Christ operating according to God's pattern and process. God has a process for love and a pattern for courtship and marriage. Outside of following God's plans things cannot be optimal in the long run. If you follow God's plan, even those things that go wrong will be a blessing to you. Read more about God's plan for the family here.

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