Though the world has changed since the advent of sin, the need for community remains. Thus God created woman to be a companion to man and to allow him true community. Though perfect, sinless and in perfect harmony with God, humans still needed to be in community with other humans. In a perfect and sinless world, where man enjoyed perfect community with his Creator, God, looking at His creation, said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.” The only thing in all of creation that was not good was man’s solitude. What follows in Genesis 2 stands out in contrast. Seven times in the story of creation (Genesis 1) God looked at what He had created and saw that it was good. Humans were created to be in community, both with each other and with God. This story speaks to a basic human need – that of community. Rather, it was the fact that he was alone, “singled out and separated, as it were, from all the world, to be miserable.” The island itself is not “a horrible, desolate island.” It became horrible because of Crusoe’s unbearable solitude. It was not the climate, the food or setting that made him so desperately unhappy. The reason for his unhappiness was his solitude. Despite living in a beautiful, idyllic location Crusoe was never truly happy in his setting. With only the supplies he salvaged from the wreck of his ship he managed to build a house, a boat and something of a life for himself. No sooner had his career started than he suffered a shipwreck and was cast ashore alive but alone somewhere on an uninhabited island off the coast of the New World. Robinson Crusoe tells the story of an obstinate Englishman who ignored his father’s wish to become a member of the clergy, opting instead for a life at sea. They seek to answer the question of what happens when a person is cut off from society and from all luxuries and is forced to survive on his own? Modern media has been plagued with movies and television shows that have adapted the theme first presented in Robinson Crusoe. Once an exciting and original story, it has now become little more than cliché. We have all heard the story of Robinson Crusoe. If you find it difficult or seemingly impossible to love others (or a particular person), remember that God truly loves you and everyone.Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron Romans 13:8 ~ Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.ġ John 4:11 ~ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.ġ John 3:18 ~ Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Outdo one another in showing honor.ġ John 4:7-10 ~ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Romans 12:10 ~ Love one another with brotherly affection. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35 ~ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. In John 13:34, Jesus said, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another." Top Bible Verses about Loving One Anotherġ John 4:20 ~ If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. What does the Bible say about Loving One Another?ĭiscover the best Bible Verses about loving others in this collection of scripture quotes.
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