Can We Love God and the World Too?   

   We can love the earth, but the "world" as used in the Bible doesn't include created nature. Commentators in our primary Bible say:

   "In this age, Satan uses the world's - psychology   desires  

      ideas   morality    philosophies    governments    mass media    religions   

   

    sports   agriculture   etc.  - to oppose God, his people, his Word and his 

righteous standards." What is meant for good can also be hijacked.

   Behind all human enterprises is a spirit that moves against God and his Word. The "world" also includes man-made religious systems and unbiblical "Christian" organizations and churches. 

   In this world, true Christians are aliens and strangers who come out of it, do not love it, die to it, and are not conformed to it. Numerous scriptures support these truths.

   Believers condemn sin, are light and salt to those walking in the system, love them, and attempt to win them to Christ. The price may be persecution and suffering.

Do not love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust 

of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - 

comes not from the Father but from the world.

1 John 2:15-16