Yes, you agree with me that verse is certainly not saying "love others as we are loved" right?
NO, that is exactly what it is saying. But for a BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN, that is Automatic, because the AGAPE LOVE, spawns out of HIS AGAPE LOVE HE POURED INTO OUR HEART or Human Spirit.
With man that kind of LOVE is impossible, but with THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US, it is entirely Possible.
Romans 5:1-10 (NRSV)
1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
3 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
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and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.
8 But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.
9 Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.
10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.
Can you see it now. That GOD's LOVE was Poured into our hearts until it was full. It is the PARENT of GODLY LOVE, and
WILL produce the exact same kind of LOVE in us. IT IS A SEED, that will produce the SAME KIND OF LOVE.
You will have to admit to GOD,
"I CAN'T LIVE LIKE THE WAY YOU WANT ME TO LIVE, YOU WILL HAVE COME INTO MY HEART AND DO IT THROUGH ME." . If you just PRAYED THAT PRAYER, MEANING EVERY WORD OF IT WITH YOUR WHOLE BEING, THEN TRUST HIM, HE Will Come IN and GIVE you the ABILITY to DO what YOU KNOW you CANNOT DO BY YOUR OWN STRENGTH. In fact, I CAN'T LIVE LIKE THAT,. AND Letting HIM DO IT, are the MOST POWERFUL WORDS I KNOW! Remember, PRAISE HIM, because YOU DID NOT DO IT, HE DID! You will know!