What is required to be a genuinely loving and faithful individual?

 

Of my discernment of my life experience, if we're heeding Yeshua's decree found in the Gospel of Matthew, to "do for others as we wish others to do for us" (which includes living by time-tested wisdom) then we're in good stead.

If you've ever wanted someone to "go the extra mile" for you too then we gotta know we should be so kind as to help a self-identifying atheist by striving to give them a huge smile because their costume is so good at the Comicon next year.

 

One of the most critically important things I've come to know in relating peacefully and productively with people of all worldviews is that we should remain amenable to questioning what may be a belief of ours if challenged by anyone with sincerity, even if angrily  so as it could be alongside righteous indignation.

 

This willingness would be meek and therefore safe and protective for one and guaranteed to be somehow educational for two of my experience. Each and every time I was humble enough about my views to be open to learning anything (even though many times I was confident I knew more overall importantly) I did in fact learn, often astonishingly.

It is by this genuine and curious approach that I've picked up on clues and tidbits that might have otherwise passed me by.

 

Much of this site is due to my curiosity and inquisitiveness in this way.

 

"Maybe this person will listen to God well and really share something."

 

If we each adopt an attitude like this towards one another we could learn and grow far more expediently.

I've seen too much of the opposite, staunch, haughty, pretentious disbelief and arrogant "throwing out the baby with the bath water".

 

However, I've been unknowingly guilty of this too, foisting my beliefs as if understanding unto people at various times in my life.

 

From a friend named Alex on behalf of Catholicism, "humility is the mother of all virtues".