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05-05-2009, 03:29 PM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
as love is a choice....i think you could choose to love more than one....but I imagine it would be difficult to dedicate that much time to 2(or more) different people.
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05-05-2009, 04:45 PM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
EDJEN, you are on to something here. This is what I think. I think that it is possible to love another, but at great cost.
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05-05-2009, 05:14 PM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
If a brother has multiple wives he should (try to) care and love all of them the same. Christians should not "fall in love" though with the spouses of others or have things like infedelity named among them, and saints should avoid any settings conducive to emotional affairs.
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05-05-2009, 07:11 PM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin
I do think it's possible.
It's just as possible to love more than one as it is to be attracted to more than one.
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I have to agree. That's where self-control steps in. 
Feeling affection for someone is not the same as devoting yourself to them IN love, in a marital relationship. Too many people mistake feelings of affection or attraction for *love.*
So I would say that you can be attracted to or feel affection for more than one person, but you decide who you will actually love. 
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05-05-2009, 08:34 PM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
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I have to agree. That's where self-control steps in.
Feeling affection for someone is not the same as devoting yourself to them IN love, in a marital relationship. Too many people mistake feelings of affection or attraction for *love.*
So I would say that you can be attracted to or feel affection for more than one person, but you decide who you will actually love. |
This is very true. Furthermore, the depth of ones feelings is often not the best gauge in choosing a lifelong mate.
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05-05-2009, 08:38 PM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
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Originally Posted by edjen01
as love is a choice....i think you could choose to love more than one....but I imagine it would be difficult to dedicate that much time to 2(or more) different people.
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All you can do is love the one your with....
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05-05-2009, 08:41 PM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
No. We know that love is unselfish. In reality one or the other will be deprived of something. Intimacy, time, etc. I do think you can become infatuated for a time, but not really love more than one at the same time in equality.
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05-09-2009, 06:44 AM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
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I know that we have talked about this on here a couple times and I wanted to rehash it cause I think it is an interesting topic. Do you believe or not believe that it is possible to love more than one person at a time? Example can a wife love her husband and yet also love another person intimately? I am not talking about loving kids the same, but that is a fair example on showing multiple strands of love at once.
I think that it is very possible--but not saying I am right. That being said I am not for it and I think that it is wrong. Just want to debate the topic. I do think that while loving two people that the love can not be equal between the two. I think that one person will for whatever reason have more love given to them over the other person. Like a wife or husband might give more love to the spouse because of the kids they share or the time spent together and yet still love another person too.
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this topic doesn't reflect my life but I am bringing up as a topic of debate.
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This one scares me JT. To even think about or debate it is dangerous! The Bible says, "Whatsoever things are good, just, pure, honest, of GOOD report....THINK on THESE THINGS..."
It also says you should be the husband of ONE WIFE - and if you even LOOK UPON another woman, it's adultery.
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05-09-2009, 07:22 AM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
I don't think you can can love another as you love your wife. That is a love that is reserved for her alone. You can and are required to love others as you love yourself but your love for your wife should be a love that goes beyond the love you have for yourself. Your love for your wife or husband should be in a catagory with your love for God. God and mate in that order.
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05-09-2009, 08:30 AM
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Re: Can you love more than one???
They taught us in "Regents" that we could.
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I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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