Real love—the kind described by the God who created and
is love (1 John 4:8)—always includes truth. The two are inextricably
intertwined, since true love celebrates truth (1 Cor. 13:6). Christians are
called to this kind of love regardless of whether we feel empathy or not.
Christians love because Christ first loved us, not because we feel a certain
way or have had a particular experience (1 John 4:19).
That’s why empathy is different from love and why it also
must be submissive to love. Putting yourself in someone’s shoes may help you
feel their pain, but their pain isn’t determinative of what’s true or false,
right or wrong……
--- Allie Beth Stuckey, Toxic
Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion. 2024.
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