Why come between two lovers? God says love one another as I have loved you.

1 min readUpdated 12 October 2022

That we must love as God has loved us shows at once that not any kind of love is lawfully indulged. Christ never loved us so as to break God’s laws because of us. Such love would be unlawful. God and conscience come first always. No human love can come before one’s love for God, and he who loves God observes the laws of His religion.

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