God is love

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I'm being filled with so much love, I don't know what to do with it all.

 

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[CrystalDragon]

Nice song. And it's a great feeling to be filled with love in your whole heart—we need more of that in the world.

However, I do have to wonder about the "God is love" thing. The only mention we get of that is in John, and one other book (I think 2 Corinthians) mentions that love is patient, kind, is not envious, does not boast, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Almost all of which God goes against at least once in the Old Testament, and he even says that his name is Jealous.

 

[Left]

Nice song. And it's a great feeling to be filled with love in your whole heart—we need more of that in the world.

However, I do have to wonder about the "God is love" thing. The only mention we get of that is in John, and one other book (I think 2 Corinthians) mentions that love is patient, kind, is not envious, does not boast, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Almost all of which God goes against at least once in the Old Testament, and he even says that his name is Jealous.

God has gifted you with a beautiful sense of knowledge.

Me? I fill in the gaps.

 

[Emli]

Nice song. And it's a great feeling to be filled with love in your whole heart—we need more of that in the world.

However, I do have to wonder about the "God is love" thing. The only mention we get of that is in John, and one other book (I think 2 Corinthians) mentions that love is patient, kind, is not envious, does not boast, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Almost all of which God goes against at least once in the Old Testament, and he even says that his name is Jealous.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD." Isaiah 55:8

God is different than us, and you cannot measure Him with the same measurements with which He measures us.

 

[brinny]

Praise God!!!!!!

 

[Left]

Nice song. And it's a great feeling to be filled with love in your whole heart—we need more of that in the world.

However, I do have to wonder about the "God is love" thing. The only mention we get of that is in John, and one other book (I think 2 Corinthians) mentions that love is patient, kind, is not envious, does not boast, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Almost all of which God goes against at least once in the Old Testament, and he even says that his name is Jealous.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD." Isaiah 55:8

God is different than us, and you cannot measure Him with the same measurements with which He measures us.

Don't fight ladies, you're both beautiful.

 

[ChristianFromKazakhstan]

Nice song. And it's a great feeling to be filled with love in your whole heart—we need more of that in the world.

However, I do have to wonder about the "God is love" thing. The only mention we get of that is in John, and one other book (I think 2 Corinthians) mentions that love is patient, kind, is not envious, does not boast, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Almost all of which God goes against at least once in the Old Testament, and he even says that his name is Jealous.

Our love and God's love are surely VERY different. If somebody's dying, we're heartbroken and crying and praying they stay alive forever. But God wants them to die and programmed them that way in creation. Because if they don't die, the earth will be filled with humans who'll eat and drink all resources of the planet and so all life will be soon dead.

 

[-Luca]

Such an amazing feeling! That feeling of God's warm fluffy
blanket of affection wrapped around us.
The mind and body just goes dormant, at peace with the world.

#1 Feeling in the world!

 

[CrystalDragon]

Our love and God's love are surely VERY different. If somebody's dying, we're heartbroken and crying and praying they stay alive forever. But God wants them to die and programmed them that way in creation. Because if they don't die, the earth will be filled with humans who'll eat and drink all resources of the planet and so all life will be soon dead.

Then wouldn't it have eventually been the same way with Eden too?

 

[ChristianFromKazakhstan]

Then wouldn't it have eventually been the same way with Eden too?

What about Eden? Surely God's love is unchanging in its nature. He's beyond time, space, energy, matter. As for the OT, much of it is metaphor, allegory or pure mistake.

 

[CrystalDragon]

What about Eden? Surely God's love is unchanging in its nature. He's beyond time, space, energy, matter. As for the OT, much of it is metaphor, allegory or pure mistake.

What I mean is that if God programmed creation so it would die so the Earth wouldn't get too crowded, that would mean that either Eden never existed or Adam and Eve would never have had them or their descendants be immortal.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

Praise God we have such a loving saviour.

 

[ChristianFromKazakhstan]

What I mean is that if God programmed creation so it would die so the Earth wouldn't get too crowded, that would mean that either Eden never existed or Adam and Eve would never have had them or their descendants be immortal.

Eden is described in Genesis as a place somewhere in modern northern Iran, which after Adam and Eve had been driven out, was intact and protected by Cherubims with fiery swords. In the same manner, we read about a certain Kingdom in Cinderella or Neverland in Peter Pan, but do we start to believe in their reality?

 

[CrystalDragon]

Eden is described in Genesis as a place somewhere in modern northern Iran, which after Adam and Eve had been driven out, was intact and protected by Cherubims with fiery swords. In the same manner, we read about a certain Kingdom in Cinderella or Neverland in Peter Pan, but do we start to believe in their reality?

I see your point—though isn't it said by many that Christ's death, resurrection, and coming into the world in the first place was because of what Adam and Eve did?

 

[ChristianFromKazakhstan]

I see your point—though isn't it said by many that Christ's death, resurrection, and coming into the world in the first place was because of what Adam and Eve did?

Jesus Christ himself never said so.

 

[CrystalDragon]

Jesus Christ himself never said so.

You have a point, as Jesus himself never wrote anything down so we only have the word of other people...

 

[ChristianFromKazakhstan]

You have a point, as Jesus himself never wrote anything down so we only have the word of other people...

Even in what was written down, He never said so

 

[CrystalDragon]

Even in what was written down, He never said so

Agreed, admittedly.