5.1 Love Betrayed: Respond to the following two posts.

Kathryn

There is a significant relationship between betrayal and love. I don’t think something can be classified as a betrayal if you don’t love and care for the person who did it. If I know someone is not my friend or they don’t like me, then they go on to talk bad about me, it’s not surprising. If someone is my friend and I love them, and they turn around and talk bad about me, it’s surprising. It feels like a slap in the face. It’s a betrayal. If my best friend tries to kiss my boyfriend, it’s a betrayal. If some random girl tries to, I’m not going to feel as if it was surprising from the girl. She doesn’t owe me anything and I don’t know her personally. A random girl isn’t threatening our established friendship by doing that.

So, I think love and betrayal go hand-in-hand. Jesus was betrayed by people He loved. People He loved nailed Him to a cross. People He loved, humiliated and crucified Him. I wouldn’t know the depths of God’s love if it weren’t for this betrayal. I wouldn’t know that God was willing to have his son’s trust be betrayed, just to save us. It’s a crazy concept; Jesus died and was betrayed over and over again, just so the very people who betrayed Him would be able to lead better lives. I am so thankful for the sacrifice that Jesus made.

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Patrick

The relationship between betrayal and love is, to me, an inverse relationship. You can’t have one without the other and I think that is what the crucifixion of Jesus demonstrates. As humans, we do horrific things. To see love’s beauty and greatness, you must have betrayal so we can see the ugliness in it. Another part of the relationship between betrayal and love is that betrayal gives a chance and opportunity for an act of love and vice versa. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil Luke 6:35