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Yes, God is Love. To love God and love each other is the reason we are on Earth, we have to learn as God wants us to love: God with heart, soul and mind, and each other as we love ourselves. That does not come easy to us, we have become selfish and unloving. But it is possible. Let us start to treat all we know, and all we meet, as we would like to be treated, with kindness, always be friendly and helpful, a smile rather than ignore, and remember that God loves us all, Jesus died for us all, and God wants us to learn to remember that. If we really try to become as God wants us to be, Jesus will give us His Love and Joy, and the Holy Spirit will empower us to love: our Heavenly Father who made us in His image, and each other. Love is a Christian`s sword to overcome all evil and all temptation, love is our weapon. If we use it we will change all around us, let us try and see. I say this with love, prass1. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
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This forum is for advice, what is your question?
The slogan or quote is false.
The Father in Heaven is the source of all righteousness, not a generic and vague word for a type of
emotion.
The Father in Heaven's name is not Love or is that His Title.
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Love - the strength of all faithfulness.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love. <-----> Galatians 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love. <-----> Galatians 5:6
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Hi prass1,
Starting threads which aim to advise, inspire, expound, edify, inform, etc. may fit better with CF's Deeper Fellowship Forum.
Here's a link to it - Deeper Fellowship - Christian Forums
Or you can find it under the Edification section (there's a link there at the top of this page).
Sincerely,
wm
Starting threads which aim to advise, inspire, expound, edify, inform, etc. may fit better with CF's Deeper Fellowship Forum.
Here's a link to it - Deeper Fellowship - Christian Forums
Or you can find it under the Edification section (there's a link there at the top of this page).
Sincerely,
wm
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Peripatetic
Restless mind, peaceful soul.
I once heard it said that "God is love, but love is not God." I'm not sure if that's exactly accurate, but the point they were trying to make is that people are starting to make God into some wishy-washy spiritual "energy" that permeates all things in the form of love. It's true that love is from God, but God is also infinite (outside of time), omniscient (all knowing), sovereign (king of all kings), holy (morally perfect), omnipresent (everywhere), and omnipotent (all powerful). With each generation that passes, it seems that some of these attributes are minimized and God is portrayed with a more secular, new age version of love.
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Dear Peripatetic. God is Love, and there is nothing new-age wishy washy about it, the Greeks also call the Love which is God, and comes from God: Agape. ( selfless and no strings attached) Jesus told the Lawyer in Matthew, chapter 22, verses 35-40, " The first and great Commandment is: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. The second is like unto it: love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." There is nothing wishy-washy about it, Peripatetic, or new-age, St Paul describes the love which God wants from us in 1) Corinthians, chapter 13, verses 4-8. The attributes you give to God are great and worthy of God, but Love makes them more God-like, and God wants loving sons and daughters, changed from selfish and unloving into loving God with all our beings, and loving each other as we love ourselves. Jesus told us while He lived amongst us: " Be ye perfect as God is perfect." Perfect in loving as God wants us to be. I say this humbly and with love. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
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Peripatetic
Restless mind, peaceful soul.
I agree with everything you said there, because you are describing the love and the God of the Bible. I was speaking of the modern Oprah Winfrey type view of God - a more generalized "all you need is love" perspective that downplays Jesus and the cross.
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The LORD once spoke to me and said "your love is no good".
That shocked me, but made me think.
And its exactly what both Emmy and VertigoAge..oops Peripatetic are saying.
As someone once said "we need a love of another kind".
-eric
That shocked me, but made me think.
And its exactly what both Emmy and VertigoAge..oops Peripatetic are saying.
As someone once said "we need a love of another kind".
-eric
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Doing a study on the word love, and found that there were mainly three, yea four Greek words which have been translated , or are used to describe various forms of "love" -
1. love of the flesh - sensual, erotic love ( eros )
[ The Greek word eros is not used in The New Testament, possibly because of it's ties to Greek mythology ]
2. love of preeminence - to wish, desire, or have more, for oneself ( thelō ethelō )
And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: <-----> Mark 12:38+39
3. love of the mind - to like or prefer by reason or choice ( phileō )
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. <-----> Revelation 3:19
4. love of the heart - deep love which empowers faithfulness ( agape )
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. <-----> Jude 1:21
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And there are also at least seven Hebrew words which are translated "love", in The Old Testament.
1. ( agabah ) - inordinate love; [unrestrained amorousness ]
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredom more than her sister in her whoredom. <-----> Ezekiel 23:11
2. ( egeb ) - verbal love; [to love in word/tongue]
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness. <-----> Ezekiel 33:31
3. ( dod ) - passionate / sexual love; properly - to boil; : also the love of a relative / uncle.
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! <-----> Song of Solomon 4:10
4. ( rayah, reya ) - a personal love; a husband, wife, lover, brother, sister, companion.
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. <-----> Song of Solomon 4:7
5. ( ahab ) - friendly love; to like, have warmth / affection for.
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD. <-----> Leviticus 19:18
6. ( racham ) - compassionate love; to show mercy / suffer with.
I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. <-----> Psalm 18:1
7. ( chashaq, chasak ) - saving love; to cling, join, deliver, restrain, refrain, forbear, keep, punish, reserve, spare.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou has in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou has cast all my sins behind thy back. <-----> Isaiah 38:17
May The Lord Be Pleased to Bless & Keep.
wm
( Posted this study in Deeper Fellowship also. )
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