This stuff will ruin a relationship. No one should be so attached to the rules of a faith that they reject a sentient being's love to feed it. If you are rejecting someone's love for a law, you are doing it to build your ego. If you do it because you feel you are doing them a favor, you are also building your ego. If you are doing it to make God happy (with you) then it is for your ego. All this is just a huge ego trip. The human mind trying to build a tower to escape what it always will be.
Love is a tenet of the true religion, and a law that kills it is a law of hate. Even hate has a time and place; but it is merely a result of fear that has been developed with the ego. Knowing when to use a rule and when not to use a rule is true wisdom.
But CourageWielder...your statement will not flow with Christians...I remembered a Bible verse after I heard what you said.
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Originally Posted by The Bible
Deuteronomy 29:19
'If anyone should think to himself, "I will do well enough if I follow the dictates of my heart,"...'
Deuteronomy 29:20
'...Yahweh will not pardon him. His wrath shall burn against him.'
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And there you go. So, anyway, yes. I have personal experience with this and it is a horrible thing to deal with. Concepts are not as important as people, people.