"Love is all you need" ... if the love is of God. The Epistle of John tells us that God first loved us, "while we were yet sinners." Being sinners, we stand in need of salvation. It is the grace made possible through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross that permits even the possibility of salvation. Separating Christ from God is not an option, for Christ is God and God is love.
Turning toward God is a continuum
from total sinful ignorance
to facing the fact of one's sin
to repenting of said sin
to responding to the call to follow Christ
by loving God in Christ whle living a life of love toward others.
Christ is involved in the beginning of that process,
is present during the process,
and will be there when the process is complete.
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