If any say, “I love God,” yet hate human beings, they are liars. For any who do not love human beings, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And God has given us this command: “Whoever loves God must also love human beings.” -1 John 4:20,21

 

A person who turns to scripture only for personal inspiration and stimulation is using the Bible the same way a teenage boy uses Playboy magazine. Just as sexual stimulation without human contact may be called “pornographic,” so spiritual stimulation without real living and real relationships is the spiritual equivalent of masturbation.