Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God. Whoever loves someone who is a parent loves the child born to the parent. This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep God’s commandments. This is the love of God: we keep God’s commandments. God’s commandments are not difficult, because everyone who is born from God defeats the world. And this is the victory that has defeated the world: our faith. Who defeats the world? Isn’t it the one who believes that Jesus is God’s Son? (1 John 5:1-5, CEB)
Everyone who believes Jesus is the Messiah is born of God and a child of God. And if you love God, then you will love God’s children.
So when someone says they believe Jesus is the Messiah, then they are a child of God, and we, as fellow children of God and those who love God, need to love those children.
We can not tell them they do not believe because their lifestyle conflicts with how we think they should live, because they believe Jesus is the Christ, and therefore they are children of God.
So when someone says they believe in Jesus, love them as you love God. And if you do not love them, then do you really love God?
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