Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. But man's love for God, from the very nature of the case, must always be very largely, and must often be entirely, a Need-love. This is obvious when we implore forgiveness from our sins or support in our tribulations. But in the long run it is perhaps even more apparent in our growing—for it ought to be growing—awareness that our whole being by its very nature is one vast need; incomplete, preparatory, empty yet cluttered, crying out for Him who can untie things that are now knotted together and tie up things that are still dangling loose...It would be a bold and silly creature that came before its Creator with the boast "I'm no beggar. I love you disinterestedly."
-C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, 3-4.
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According to Jonathan Edwards, "The first objective ground of gracious affections, is the transcendently excellent and amiable nature of divine things, as they are in themselves; and not any conceived relation they bear to self, or self-interest." (The Religious Affections, Part III, Section II.) Compare and contrast.
I can't decide if you're a stunted English teacher or stunted theology prof.
But I still like you and your brain.
Maybe I'm just stunted???
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