Battle of emotions

This biblical love thing bothered me for a long time because I use to think it meant emotional love and there are just some people that I don't feel that way about. As a matter of fact, I don't like them at all. But I learned that what the Bible is talking about regarding love, as in "love your enemies" or "love your neighbor as yourself," it's not about emotional love, but about "doing unto others as you would have them do unto you." It's about doing the right thing with or for your fellow man whether you love that person or not. Whether one emotion is stronger than the other is hard to tell because we do see a lot of evil deeds done; but we also see a lot of people willing to give of themselves in times of disaster or because there's a particular need. I think it all boils down to a person's heart. I think hatred and anger rears its ugly head more quickly than love, but maybe that's because it's often a flash emotion and love is an emotion that starts slowly and builds.

I agree with you. Hate IS easier. It's because it's more acceptable. You are ALLOWED to hate whoever you want. You can hate your neighbor. You can hate Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Indians - ANYONE you want. On the other hand you are NOT allowed to love as easily. You might be called a Black-lover, a Jew- lover, a terrorist-lover. You are NOT allowed to love more than one person at the same time. And to top it all loving is COMPLICATED and requires responsibility. Hate doesn't require it.

this is such a familiar feeling

I think that's it's very related to the person itself, if the person it born to love or born to hate. Lets say that some people are more of the loving type, they love their partners more than they hate other people, and other type of people might say that they hate certain people more than they love their partners or something. It's all up to the person, I neither love more than I hate not the vice versa.

Any one can hate or love the person by seeing their character.

i think hate speaks more louder than love... in our evryday life we talk about the people we dont like than people we like.

Herro mrscallands22 For me, Love is the easier emotion, due to the love of God for me. God helps us to deal with negative emotions. I owe this love vs hate to Him. Before I had my relationship with God it was easier to hate. The hate was due to anger, another negative emotion. Thank heavens for God. God bless you Prosperous mylotting

I think among all else, it's easiest to dislike or distrust someone - because that way you aren't opening yourself up; making yourself vulnerable to dependence, rejection, and hurt. I think it's easier to SAY you hate someone than to say you love someone; I think to love takes a lot of strength. I'm still trying to learn this concept myself.

I think it depends on the kind of person you are, how you were brought up as, expecially your school years will have a big part to play in this. If your school years were crap, you got bullied all the time, didn't get along well, then it's easy to say you will express "hate" more easily than love, because that's what you're used to. If your childhood, school years were a blast. You have nothing to hate about, so you love the world around you.

Dot not hate a person ,that is too hard,you think?