The Greatest of These is Love

Another thought on faith, doubt and Christianity.

In I Corinthians 13, the famous chapter on love, Paul makes the following observation about the value of faith:

If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Paul's final conclusion is this:
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
What I take away from this is what I've been arguing in the last few posts on doubt and faith: The defining criterion of Christianity isn't faith. It's love.

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