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Scripture tells us God is love...
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
But what is love? This is not a question necessarily seeking to find out the correlation between God and love although responses can reflect that, yet what is love.
If your response shows me examples of love great! But I will still chase the root...you have provided great examples but you still have not expressed what it is.
We do know there are varying degrees of love, some expressing intimacy such as between a husband and wife. Some forms of love express a strong emotional and relational bond like the love between sisters. Yet other forms of love may have different qualities such as having love for your enemy. We are even told to not love the world, yet we know we must love our neighbors as our selves. Love is more than just an emotion, it is a choice in every given situation.
Is there a difference between loving as a Christian and an unbeliever? Can one love without being a Christian? How does love act. What does love do? When is love perfected?
Don't feel you have to answer every question, these are presented to provoke thought and interest.
Be creative. Be academic. Be philosophical, physiological, psychological. Be loving. :wub:
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
But what is love? This is not a question necessarily seeking to find out the correlation between God and love although responses can reflect that, yet what is love.
If your response shows me examples of love great! But I will still chase the root...you have provided great examples but you still have not expressed what it is.
We do know there are varying degrees of love, some expressing intimacy such as between a husband and wife. Some forms of love express a strong emotional and relational bond like the love between sisters. Yet other forms of love may have different qualities such as having love for your enemy. We are even told to not love the world, yet we know we must love our neighbors as our selves. Love is more than just an emotion, it is a choice in every given situation.
Is there a difference between loving as a Christian and an unbeliever? Can one love without being a Christian? How does love act. What does love do? When is love perfected?
Don't feel you have to answer every question, these are presented to provoke thought and interest.
Be creative. Be academic. Be philosophical, physiological, psychological. Be loving. :wub: