Thank you for disagreeing. You brought back to my original point that love is what distinguishes Christianity from all else with the combination of these two scripture verses: 1 John 4:8 " God is love," and Romans 1:20 "For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. " My entire point was that the love found in Christianity is found everywhere but only points to the one who perfected it through demonstrating it on the cross. God is love and His invisible attributes are just that: they are everywhere. You can see them when you watch your dog with his pups, the cat with her kittens, the bear with her cubs, the duck with her ducklings, the whale with her infant, and a mother or father with their child. We see the shadow or the attributes of who God is here, on this planet, with us. This world is imperfect with death but the evidence is nevertheless here so that "none are without excuse" as the scripture says. Christ (God) died a human death to conquer evil instead of simply snapping His fingers and making it disappear. The Parable of the Sower with the plants and the weeds explains why that is. You cannot find real love in Islam or any pantheistic religion that calls for works to be done. Our Father is just that, Our Father, and He gives us eternal life simply by for the asking and believing. 1 Corinthians chapter 13 defines love even further:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[
a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[ 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
We have the two most important things in this life: truth and love. Jesus Christ claimed to be both.