What is L.O.V.E.? (Matthew 22:36-40)

[GosDontez]

Again, why must I repeat myself? Of course I Love Christ and I obey even when I don't "feel" Love for Him. Like any child would obey their parents even if they didn't "feel" Love at the time. Like I said many times over now. Love involves emotion but it does NOT rely on emotions to exist. This is seems is where you are missing the truth of Love. Shall I give you more examples?

Is love an emotion of pleasure for you or pain or both?

 

[GosDontez]

Huh? Look, I really need you to respond to what I am saying if you expect me to be able to answer any of your questions. So let's say it one more time and see if it gets through to you.

Love is both emotion and action and as such it does NOT rely on emotion to exist. IOW's no matter how I FEEL I can still Love. Love is not an extension of my feelings. Feeling both make Love easier and challenge me to Love when I don't FEEL Love. So once again, you are supposedly arguing that Love requires feeling in order to exist because what I keep telling you is that it does NOT require emotions to exist.

As I said, I can give you more examples if that will help.

No. You've made yourself clear. For you, love is not 100% based on emotion.

So effectively, if you are doing any or all of the things mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13 about biblical love, you, specifically, are NOT doing them out of an emotion of caring. You just love out of obedience. You don't feel pain or pleasure when you love. You feel no emotion at all whan you biblically love.

Biblical love is NOT based on the emotion of caring, it's based on obedience.

Is that a fair summary about Biblical love in your view?

 

[razzelflabben]

Is love an emotion of pleasure for you or pain or both?

as I said, Biblical Love is emotion, action, attitude and more. It consumes the entire man. Sometimes the emotion is pleasure, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes down right difficult, sometimes there isn't any emotion to it at all it is just the attitude by which I try to live my life. As I have said many times over in this thread, Biblical Love does NOT rely on emotion to exist.

 

[razzelflabben]

No. You've made yourself clear. For you, love is not 100% based on emotion.

So effectively, if you are doing any or all of the things mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13 about biblical love, you, specifically, are NOT doing them out of an emotion of caring. You just love out of obedience. You don't feel pain or pleasure when you love. You feel no emotion at all whan you biblically love.

Biblical love is NOT based on the emotion of caring, it's based on obedience.

Is that a fair summary about Biblical love in your view?

You left out tons of things I told you. For example, I did say that sometimes the emotion is there, sometimes it is not. Love is obedience but more because it has become an attitude by which I live. IOW's it transcends emotions alone and goes beyond emotion and obedience as well. If it were only one or the other it would not be Love. That is the point you seem to keep missing. Worldly love is emotion and without that pleasant emotion it is not love...by contrast Biblical Love is so much more than just an emotion. It is an emotion, an action, an attitude...it is a way of life...it is obedience and willingness and knowledge and understanding and grace and mercy and compassion and so much more. It is a changed heart, new desires, supernatural lived out when the world cannot understand. AND SO MUCH MORE...

 

[GosDontez]

You left out tons of things I told you. For example, I did say that sometimes the emotion is there, sometimes it is not. Love is obedience but more because it has become an attitude by which I live. IOW's it transcends emotions alone and goes beyond emotion and obedience as well. If it were only one or the other it would not be Love. That is the point you seem to keep missing. Worldly love is emotion and without that pleasant emotion it is not love...by contrast Biblical Love is so much more than just an emotion. It is an emotion, an action, an attitude...it is a way of life...it is obedience and willingness and knowledge and understanding and grace and mercy and compassion and so much more. It is a changed heart, new desires, supernatural lived out when the world cannot understand. AND SO MUCH MORE...

I want to thank you for all the time you have spent replying to this thread.

Considering how valuable time is, you chose to spend some of it here.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

 

[razzelflabben]

I want to thank you for all the time you have spent replying to this thread.

Considering how valuable time is, you chose to spend some of it here.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

No problem...I hope it is helping you to understand the difference between worldly love and Biblical Love

 

[GosDontez]

No problem...I hope it is helping you to understand the difference between worldly love and Biblical Love

I thank you for your point of view. Whether you're right about everything you wrote...I don't know.

The search continues....

 

[razzelflabben]

I thank you for your point of view. Whether you're right about everything you wrote...I don't know.

The search continues....

In my experience any time we truly want to know something the best way to go about it is study the source. In the case of Biblical Love the source is God through scripture...otherwise you are just asking man for their opinion and not really looking for the answers you claim to want.

 

[faroukfarouk]

No problem...I hope it is helping you to understand the difference between worldly love and Biblical Love

What a vast difference, indeed!

 

[razzelflabben]

What a vast difference, indeed!

unfortunately most people are too lazy to invest time in learning and understanding the difference.

 

[Matthew13:9]

What is L.O.V.E.?

Matthew 22:36-40King James Version (KJV)

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.


Thou shalt love the Lord Christ with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love the Son of God as thyself.


Romans 12:5King James Version (KJV)

5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

 

[Ron Gurley]

"LOVE" in the Bible: What is it?

Real love seeks to serve others, rather than to be served by others.

True Love unconditionally gives and commits self without any expectation of return.

 

[iwbswiaihl2]

love is holiness,
“Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is and is to come!”