"True Love"

"Now the end of  the commandment is charity out of  a pure heart, and of  a good conscience, and of  faith unfeigned:" I Timothy 1:5

     Some strong fundamentalists who severely denounce modernists and compromisers are called "unloving."  But love in the Biblical and doctrinal sense has clear bounds and definitions.  Love here has a threefold definition.
     It is first "charity of  a pure heart."  The world's definition of  love is usually sex.  Modern music and Hollywood gives this interpretation of  love.  Modern religion's definition of  love is the same.  One is to love no matter how much it is a contradiction of  principle.  How can one love out of  a pure heart if  he is to love a modemist who denies the virgin birth?
It would be committing spiritual adultery to love and endorse that which God hates!
     It is second, "charity out of  . . . good conscience."  Today, we have "situation ethics" which will clear the deck of  your conscience for any action.  But the Bible does not agree with such ethics.  A good conscience is a pure conscience and a pure conscience must be based on the Bible, NOT the situation.
     It is third, "charity out of . . . faith unfeigned."  Unfeigned faith is the foundation of  true love, and there is no Scriptural love where faith is destroyed.  If  so-called Christian love becomes so broad that it endorses error and fellowships with heresy, it is no longer founded on faith and is therefore not love at all, but license.
     True love discerns between good and evil and chooses good and rejects evil. --H.N.