I remember back when I was Catholic I never had the sense that anyone in the church actually loved anyone else. There were people who did good works but the works were done to earn their way to heaven so it didn't matter about the person they were doing them for, only that they got a reward or points to get themselves to heaven.
Religion is selfish, its all about one's own self aggrandizement. It cannot be the pure kind of love that born again believers have for the brethren.
Those who are born again will get rewards for good deeds but that's not why they do them. The born again believer loves to please His Father and loves those He cares for, it not about earning anything it's about loving God and loving people.
1 John 3:13-15 "…13 So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.…'
1 Corinthians 13:2-3 "2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.…"
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