the same man who said
1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
'also says:
Heb_11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
this is the OED's def. on charity that goes back as far as 1382 AD, note the word caritas of the vulgate hence Latin
1. Christian love: a word representing caritas of the Vulgate, as a frequent rendering of 2c0pg in N.T. Greek. With various applications: as †a. God's love to man. (By early writers often identified with the Holy Spirit.) Obs.
c1200 Ormin 3000, & Godess Gast iss kariteþ & soþfasst lufe nemmnedd; & tatt wass all þurrh kariteþ & þurrh soþ lufe forþedd Þatt Godess sune AllmahtiŠ Godd Warrþ mann of Sannte MarŠe. 138. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 509 „oven of Crist of+his endeles charitee to mankinde. 1382 I Rom. viii. 39 The charite [Tindale, etc. love, Rhem. charitie] of God, that is in Jhesu Crist oure Lord. 1488 Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 27 The whiche goodnes is god hymself for he ys all charyte. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 223 Be the merit of the same maist haly Passion the Charitie of God is powred forth in thair hartes. [1839 J. H. Newman Par. Serm. IV. xxi. 363 Charity is but another name for the Comforter.]
†b. Man's love of God and his neighbour, commanded as the fulfilling of the Law, Matt. xxii. 37, 39. Obs.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 39 Hwet is riht cherite+þet þu luuie þine drihten ofer+alle eorðliche þing+and seoðdan beoden uwilc mon swa þu waldest þet me þe bude, þis is riht cherite. c1200 Vices & Virtues 21 Ic clepie and bidde for ðo muchele kariteð ðe is an Šeu. c1315 Shoreham 3 That man lovye God and man, Ase charité hyt hoteth. 1488 Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 27 In goodnes of charyte is a bonde of loue the whiche draeth us to god. 1547 Homilies i. Charity ii. (1859) 69 Charity stretcheth itself both to God and man, friend and foe. 1552 Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 42 Quhate is cherite? It is lufe, quharby we lufe God for his awin saik+and our neichbour for Gods saik, or in God. 1557 N. T. (Genev.) Rev. ii. 4 Neuerthelesse, I haue somwhat agaynst thee, because thou hast left thy fyrst charitie. [So Wyclif, and Rhemish: Geneva 1560 ‘love’.] 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §14 This I think charity, to love God for himselfe, and our neighbours for God. 1846 Keble in Plain Serm. VIII. ccxli, Charity—the true love of God in Christ+ensures the practice of all other virtues.
c. esp. The Christian love of our fellow-men; Christian benignity of disposition expressing itself in Christ-like conduct: one of the ‘three Christian graces’, fully described by St. Paul, 1 Cor. xiii.
(One of the chief current senses in devotional language, though hardly otherwise without qualification as ‘Christian charity’, etc. In the Revised Version, the word has disappeared, and love has been substituted.)
a1300 Cursor M. 10043 Cherite [v.r. cheryte, charite] euer fordos envie. 1382 Wyclif i Cor. viii. 1 Sothli science, or kunnynge, inblowith with pride: charite edifieth. Ibid. xiii. 13 Nowe forsothe dwellen feith, hope, and charite, thes thre; forsoth the mooste of thes is charite. c1450 Lay-Folks Mass-Bk. 308 Haue cherité with herte fyne+ That eche man loue wel othere. 1587 Golding De Mornay xx. 318 Some tell vs that Religion is nothing els but charitie, that is to say, the performing of a mans duetie towards his neighbour. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 261 'Twere good you do so much for charitie. Iew. I cannot finde it, 'tis not in the bond. 1628 Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 63 A Shee precise Hypocrite+Shee is so taken vp with Faith, shee ha's no roome for Charity. 1796 H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 483 The charity of the Gospel should extend to men of every Religion. 1845 R. Jebb in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) II. 709/1 The law of charity does not require me to have a greater regard for him than for myself. But, on the other hand, the same law requires that I should not have a less.
d. In this sense often personified in poetic language, painting, sculpture, etc.
c1300 Deus Caritas 33 in E.E.P. (1862) 127 Let Charite nou a-wake, And do hit þer neode is. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. viii. 45 Charite þe champioun chief help aŠein synne. 1726 Thomson Winter 354 The conscious heart of Charity would warm. 17+ H. More Ode Charity, O Charity, divinely wise, Thou meek-ey'd Daughter of the skies! c1850 G. Rorison Hymn to Trinity, Lift on us thy Light Divine: And let charity benign Breathe on us her balm.
e. in, out of, charity: in or out of the Christian state of charity, or love and right feeling towards one's fellow Christians.
c138. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 274 A symple pater noster of a plouŠman þat his in charite is betre þan a thousand massis of coueitouse prelatis. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xi. 38 He falleþ nat out of charite. 1455 E. Clere in Four C. Eng. Lett. 5 And he seith he is in charitee with all the world. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. xxiv. 201, I can nat be in charity with hym that holdeth wrongefully from me my landis. 1633 Massinger New Way i. ii, I am out of charity With none so much as the thin-gutted squire. 1735 Pope Donne's Sat. iv. 3, I die in charity with fool and knave. 1816 Jane Austen Emma III. xiv. 257 She was now in perfect charity with Frank Churchill.
now the Latin
and its meaning certainly falls under the catholic terminology
hence its true meaning in the Christian context:
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excerpts from Wikipedia
In Christian theology, Charity (Latin Caritas) is considered as one of the seven virtues and is understood by Thomas Aquinas as "the friendship of man for God", which "unites us to God". He holds it as "the most excellent of the virtues".[1] Further, Aquinas holds that "the habit of charity extends not only to the love of God, but also to the love of our neighbor".[2]
The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines "charity" as "the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for His own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God".
The phrase Deus caritas est from 1 John 4:8—or Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν (Theos agapē estin) in the original Greek[4] is translated in the King James Version as: "God is love", and in the Douay-Rheims bible as: "God is charity" (1 John 4:8). Thomas Aquinas does not simply equate charity with "love", which he holds as a passion, not a virtue.[5] The King James Version uses both the words charity and love to translate the idea of caritas/ἀγάπη (agapē): sometimes it uses one, then sometimes the other, for the same concept. Most other English translations, both before and since, do not; instead, throughout they use the same more direct English word love. Love can have other meanings in English, but as used in the New Testament it almost always refers to the virtue of caritas.
Many times when charity is mentioned in English-language bibles, it refers to "love of God", which is a spiritual love that is extended from God to man and then reflected by man, who is made in the image of God, back to God. God gives man the power to act as God acts (God is love), man then reflects God's power in his own human actions towards others. One example of this movement is "charity shall cover the multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8). "The practice of charity brings us to act toward ourselves and others out of love alone, precisely because each person has the dignity of a beloved child of God."
Charity is held to be the ultimate perfection of the human spirit, because it is said to both glorify and reflect the nature of God. Confusion can arise from the multiple meanings of the English word "love". As other theological virtues, Charity is divinely infused into the soul; it resides in the will.[7] According to Aquinas, charity is an absolute requirement for happiness, which he holds as man's last goal.
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so how does that manifest itself in the Lord God
all that the Almighty has provided for the creatures of the earth including man no matter how wicked man is, is freely given, without restraint and no one will be required to pay Him back.
the super sonic Grace of God, charity, still today understood as giving without expectation of return. even the world understands it, but Christians theologize it, and redefine it to mean their own love in their own judgement, which could be the love of and for anything.
when the woman with the issue touched the hem of His garment Jesus said "who touched me"
Luk 8:45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
Luk 8:46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
that woman owned Jesus nothing nor did He give her any guilt trip of such, He even said it was because of her faith.
that is charity. giving without expectation of return. so yes, God is charity.
