Human's purpose

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You know what?

I have no idea what any of this means. I'm being serious. What is love exactly? Maybe I'm just weird.

There are books on Agape (Love) that show the differences between all the different “loves” so I cannot go over everything, but would suggest you read some of them.


Jesus redefines true love which I define as Godly type Love and capitalize the “L” to distinguish this “Love” from all other loves. The definition of Godly type Love includes everything Christ said and did. You can also use 1 Cor. 13 and 1 John 4.


I am not suggesting an excellent Christian mother would not have Godly type Love for her child, but that Godly Love would be much more than just mother’s love for child.

There are lots of emotional, instinctive and logical reasons why a mother loves her child, some of the same reasons we see in the animal world among some animals.

Godly type Love has nothing to do with “who” is being Loved, but is the result of the Lover deciding to love because of who he is and what has been done for him. Suppose you lived in the first century and this man Saul had tortured and killed all your family and friends, would it be natural for you to Love him? God Loved him and he wants us to Love him, but not for what he did or what he will become, but because of who we are and want has been done for us. What has been do for us can also happen for Saul, but is not required to happen for us to Love Saul. To “Love” Saul would take a “Love” way beyond human type love and ability for humans to develop.

 

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There are books on Agape (Love) that show the differences between all the different “loves” so I cannot go over everything, but would suggest you read some of them.


Jesus redefines true love which I define as Godly type Love and capitalize the “L” to distinguish this “Love” from all other loves. The definition of Godly type Love includes everything Christ said and did. You can also use 1 Cor. 13 and 1 John 4.


I am not suggesting an excellent Christian mother would not have Godly type Love for her child, but that Godly Love would be much more than just mother’s love for child.

There are lots of emotional, instinctive and logical reasons why a mother loves her child, some of the same reasons we see in the animal world among some animals.

Godly type Love has nothing to do with “who” is being Loved, but is the result of the Lover deciding to love because of who he is and what has been done for him. Suppose you lived in the first century and this man Saul had tortured and killed all your family and friends, would it be natural for you to Love him? God Loved him and he wants us to Love him, but not for what he did or what he will become, but because of who we are and want has been done for us. What has been do for us can also happen for Saul, but is not required to happen for us to Love Saul. To “Love” Saul would take a “Love” way beyond human type love and ability for humans to develop.

I avoid Greek for any theology. Sorry, NT isn't my cup of tea and Jesus doesn't get to give me any advice.

The closest I will give you is that God gives us the picture of a mother nursing child and says that even that mother could forget the child, but He would never forget Israel.

 

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I avoid Greek for any theology. Sorry, NT isn't my cup of tea and Jesus doesn't get to give me any advice.

The closest I will give you is that God gives us the picture of a mother nursing child and says that even that mother could forget the child, but He would never forget Israel.

OK we can stick with the Old Testament.

How about God as the Good Shepherd that is willing to lay His life down for the sheep?

Would the sheep know to care?

 

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OK we can stick with the Old Testament.

How about God as the Good Shepherd that is willing to lay His life down for the sheep?

Would the sheep know to care?

That isn't in the Jewish Bible. God is not subject to death, therefore God never makes a promise to die for anybody.