Which obviously what I was referring to and clearly was not meek. jesus was not meek, which was my point.
If you do not believe that God sends people to Hell for all time, good for you. I do know there are Christians who do not believe this. If you do not believe that God destroyed towns or gave the Jews the right to kill, even the injunction to kill others, good.
One thing that is not love is your judging, using the Bible as support, others as unloving when they are not as forgiving as you think they should be. This stance and judgment on your part is unloving and yet you think you think that it is loving to tell people, regardless of their situation, that it is loving to forgive their abusers. This act on your part is not loving.
edit: and, hey, look, I am certainly unloving at times. We are all human. My point is not that you should be more perfect. It sounds like your ideals are already rather strict. My point is that the ideal itself, not some act on some particular day, is unloving. I am going to drop this issue with you because there is no point in going back and forth with it. I will say that I have wondered if you have ever lived with a romantic partner and if you are young. Certainly people who are married can have the same ideals, but it is a little harder to not notice what these ideals actually do if one lives with a spouse and children. What these ideals really do to the soul. How the ‘loving and forgiving person’ either feels used because the ideal as you concieve it is self-abusive, or they feel judgmental and holier than thou to the other person. ‘Why can’t you sacrifice and be as loving as me?’ What a lot of people who have this kind of self-abusive ideal do not realize or want to notice is what they are actually feeling and cannot understand why they get the reactions they get from people. ‘But I was being so loving’.
If you are older and are or have been married and still have these beliefs than probably nothing will change them. If you are young and have not been married or been in a live together relationship than you may find yourself called on for things you think you are not doing. Let us know.
Peace.