Hi Dante,
I think I am beginning to see where you are coming from. Love is most certainly an all encompassing factor that we all must learn. I agree with you that there are people in this world who do show great acts of love and there is no doubt those who are very loving people as a way of life. But is love without the knowledge of who and what Christ is enough by itself to be in the first resurrection?
John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
v. 54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
v. 55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
v. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
v. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
v. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven--not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever."
Jesus Christ is the means by which we recieve this bread of life that substains us. How do we 'eat' Christ? He is our bread spiritually, when we learn the knowledge of the Truth that He revealed, we are partaking of His body.
John 6:27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him."
v. 28 Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?"
v. 29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
John 6:33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
John 6:40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
v. 48 I am the bread of life.
v. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
v. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
v. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."
I those loving people that come up in the Lake of fire will not have too much to worry about - few stripes.
But the first resurrection is for those few that Christ is training and preparing to rule and reign with Him. And all those really great and loving people all through history, the Elect will teach them the Truth. Because the Elect will be the bride of Christ, they have been prepared to reign with Christ.
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife
has made herself ready."
When the Elect are ruling the world with Christ, all people will come to the knowledge of the Truth.
1Tim 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
v. 4 who desires all men to be saved and
to come to the knowledge of the truth.
And what is the Truth?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 18:37 Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?"
Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that
I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
Isa 26:9 With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
I hope you can follow these Scriptures that I have presented, so many of them speak for themself and there was no need to comment
mercy, peace and love
Kat