I have no confusion. I said "love" is no more determinable than the will of God, and the will of God is no less determinable than love.
You are the one who claims the will of God can't be determined.
Love is, indeed, action. Jesus said explicitly:
If you love me, keep my commands.
Therefore, love is the same thing as doing the will of God.
If--as you assert--it's impossible to determine the will of God for our actions, then it's impossible to love as God wants us to love.
But I quoted Romans 12 to point out that it is possible to know the will of God.
If love was an action, how could God
be love? "Apage" love isn't even a feeling. Allow me to explain.
Love, as set forth by Jesus, is the keynote of the new kingdom. With the exception of the word 'life' - 'love' is the most important abstract term in the whole of Scripture. God's love, the basis for His dealing with humans in the OT, climaxes in the NT in the incarnation and death of Jesus Christ. It is the key word in the Christian summary of biblical revelation (
Matthew 22:37;
John 3:16;
Romans 13:9;
Galatians 5:14;
James 2:8;
1 John 3:23).
Love is selfless. Jesus is the premier example of how to love. Paul's description of love in action includes liberality, acts of mercy, hospitality, avoidance of revenge, sympathy, rejoicing with others, sharing of need, and edifying others; the list is almost endless. More generally,
love is revealed as a quality of activity and of thinking. In brief, love does no harm.
Love is, for Paul, "the law of Christ," supreme and sufficient (
Galatians 5:14; Galatians 6:2), and Paul neatly defines what alone avails in Christianity as "faith working through love" (
Galatians 5:6). He insists that the supreme manifestation of the Spirit that Christians should covet is "the more excellent way" of love (
1 Corinthians 12:27 - 13:13;
Romans 5:5;
Galatians 5:22). Here, too, he contrasts love with five other expressions of religious zeal much prized at Corinth in order to show that each is profitless without love (
1 Corinthians 13:1-3). He ends the chapter by comparing love with faith and hope, the other enduring elements of religious experience, and declares love to be the greatest.
When I use the definition above for "love", I believe all loving acts are moral acts. I like to ask the question, will this action harm my relationship with either God or my neighbor?
