@rajk999 saidA friend of mine shared a dream she had that I think confirms what you just said.
How can a man love God who he has not seen? Proof that you love God is brotherly love. Therefore John explained that if you have brotherly love you ALSO HAVE LOVE FOR GOD.
However the church-going public promote professions of faith and belief and equate that with love for God which is wrong. Church goers who do no good works do not love God. One an conclude they love th ...[text shortened]... an who professes nothing but who has brotherly love has love for God even if he professes no belief.
She and a group of people were standing in front of a church, and above in the
sky, it started parting; she knew the Lord was coming; those next to her could all
see, but there were a large number of people standing next to the church, and they
looked, and all they could see was the church building. You can take that for all its
worth; it was, after all, a dream.