We cannot love God without loving people.
We cannot love people without loving God.

This duality of love is perfectly displayed in the cross.

the cross is the very image of love.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

The cross is where he who knew no sin, became sin, that he might take away the sins of the world, redeeming us to proper sonship in the Father.

A cross is made of two poles, one vertical, one horizontal.

If you take away the vertical pole, you have a beam laying on the ground.

If you take away the horizontal, you only have a post.

If you love God, but not people, you only have self-righeouesness.
you will drive others away until you are a pillar of isolation. There will be noting to hold to when the tides of life crash in, and others will flee, searching for something they can grasp to save them from their drowning. This haughtiness is not love of God, but a love of the self and one’s own perceived self attained holiness.

If you love people, but not God, you will promote self-destrucive behavior that will result in brokenness and the end of which is destruction. You will encourage and promote acceptance and understanding, even when the path is destruction. this is a false love, a false teaching whose end is only death.

There can be no true love for God, unless you love people, and there can be no true love for people unless you love God.