Comments on: Harry Potter: What’s Love Got to Do with It? http://www.theottery.com/2007/07/harry-potter-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/ "If an otter can't have fun doing something, it just simply won't do it." Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:31:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: K http://www.theottery.com/2007/07/harry-potter-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-753 K Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:26:35 +0000 http://www.theottery.com/2007/07/harry-potter-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-753 Thanks for doing more thinking, Otter! (and for your contribution, Pop Otter) I wholeheartedly agree that it is the decision and choice to love that is so much more wonderful and mysterious than mere emotion. Somewhere the two also intersect and influence one another. But I liked your points about Snape as well. He comes across as much more dispicable in the book than in the movies, which I attribute entirely to my Alan Rickman crush. But... I much appreciate your points here because it gives me all the more reason to swoon over him onscreen =) Thanks for doing more thinking, Otter! (and for your contribution, Pop Otter)

I wholeheartedly agree that it is the decision and choice to love that is so much more wonderful and mysterious than mere emotion. Somewhere the two also intersect and influence one another. But I liked your points about Snape as well. He comes across as much more dispicable in the book than in the movies, which I attribute entirely to my Alan Rickman crush. But… I much appreciate your points here because it gives me all the more reason to swoon over him onscreen =)

]]> By: Pop Otter http://www.theottery.com/2007/07/harry-potter-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-747 Pop Otter Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:18:52 +0000 http://www.theottery.com/2007/07/harry-potter-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-747 The biblical perspective, I think, is that goodness occurs where holiness meets love. Holiness is defined in terms of God's character and expresses itself in a profound loyalty, beyond all reason, to God's perfect purposes for creation. Love is defined in terms of God's redeeming heart to rescue, restore, and reconcile alienated humanity, seeking the total best for unworthy creatures. Love takes judgmentalism out of holiness, and holiness takes sap out of love. Jesus fits the job definition of Messiah, Savior, and Lord precisely because he so thoroughly brings love and holiness together, neither condemning those who fail nor lowering the bar of expectations for them. I do not know a single other human besides Jesus who so fully unites holiness and love, but those who entrust themselves to Jesus' rule over their lives invariably just keep getting closer to the goal. Good Christian stories do not portray flawless disciples, but continually growing and transforming ones. In contrast to Christian good, evil either defies holiness or twists love. The biblical perspective, I think, is that goodness occurs where holiness meets love. Holiness is defined in terms of God’s character and expresses itself in a profound loyalty, beyond all reason, to God’s perfect purposes for creation. Love is defined in terms of God’s redeeming heart to rescue, restore, and reconcile alienated humanity, seeking the total best for unworthy creatures. Love takes judgmentalism out of holiness, and holiness takes sap out of love.

Jesus fits the job definition of Messiah, Savior, and Lord precisely because he so thoroughly brings love and holiness together, neither condemning those who fail nor lowering the bar of expectations for them.

I do not know a single other human besides Jesus who so fully unites holiness and love, but those who entrust themselves to Jesus’ rule over their lives invariably just keep getting closer to the goal.

Good Christian stories do not portray flawless disciples, but continually growing and transforming ones.

In contrast to Christian good, evil either defies holiness or twists love.

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