What is love?

[throughfiierytrial]

Lets talk about love. Love is the greatest and it abides forever, it never fails, and it always edifies.

Sometimes love must be strong and act against its *kind nature* (not really, but it can seem so, at least at first) in order to rebuke and correct. Rebuking and correcting are very high forms of love for this very reason...we must by-pass our desire to just want to get along and be kind in order to reach out in love to correct with the aim of saving a soul or to prevent a soul from going astray, knowing that soul/person may very well despise us for doing so.

 

[Neogaia777]

See here for more:

Just "be" "Love"... What more do we need to know than this...? It is the entire point of...

Peace,

God Bless!

 

[dqhall]

Love is harmless as a dove. Love gives without expecting to be paid in return. Love is not easily angered. Love tells the truth instead of a lie.

 

[Kit Sigmon]

Lets talk about love. Love is the greatest and it abides forever, it never fails, and it always edifies.

Love in it's many forms... http://www.christinyou.net/Outlines/love.pdf

 

[W2L]

Love is the motivation behind all God does. God cannot act except in love - it is an inherent part of his character and personality.

Love is the preprequisite of living true and of enabling real freedom in community.

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (1 Cor 13:7)

God's love gives us faith and hope, so even when they are no longer needed, love remains. We love him because he first loved us (not only as a reciprical act, but because our love comes from him God is love, we have none of our own). We trust him because he first trusted us (not only is trust an element of love, he has believed in people from the beginning, entrusting them with his garden, with giving identity to his other creatures, giving them freedom of will. Free will is a prerequisite for true love, and only true love would dare to give free will.)

Thank you for your thoughts.

 

[W2L]

Here are few words about love:

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:7-8

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24

I believe Love is Spirit and that Spirit can be seen in caring actions.

I agree. Thank you.

 

[W2L]

If E = mc2 then we can divide and conclude that...

Mass (m) = Energy (E/c2)

And there are three varieties...

Natural E/c2 - All mass is basically cooled plasma
Mental E/c2 - Mentally, A mathematical formula, but this has chemical and spiritual properties as well.
Spiritual E/c2 - E (motivation, warmth, love) / c2 (faith, hope, charity, joy)

The spiritual energies and light are different from the mental and material. Therefore the spiritual light and energies cannot be bought or taught. Love flows from the wells of the spiritual and has nothing to do with our intellect or our material.

Thank you for your thoughts rocky.

 

[W2L]

Love in it's many forms... http://www.christinyou.net/Outlines/love.pdf

Thank you for the link.

 

[W2L]

Love is harmless as a dove. Love gives without expecting to be paid in return. Love is not easily angered. Love tells the truth instead of a lie.

Amen, thank you.

 

[W2L]

Agape as used in the NT, is to do what is needed and necessary to the one who is loved. The one who acts out of love sacrifices his own best interests and even the self-interests and yearnings of the one being loved to accomplish what is needed not what is wanted.
Agape in classical Greek has nothing to do with modern day reincarnations, it was a philosophical term.
This is why in scripture Agape is many times coupled with the ultimate sacrifice. For God so loved the World that He sent his only begotten Son... There is no greater gift that this. That a man give up his life for his friends. Men love your wives like Christ loved his Church and gave up his life for her... etc
It is not in anyone's natural inclinations to die but love presupposes an act that overcomes natural willing, self interests, and the resolve do the painful neccesity regardless of either the one who loves to the one being loved. In some ways it can even cease to be a moral quality, opting to remove medical care for someone you love for example. When God destroyed Sodom. It's the agonizing choice to do what is necessary to liberate the one you love.

Thank you for your words.

 

[W2L]

Stretching Out HIS arms on the Cross and dying for His friends! John 15:13Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Amen. Thank you.

 

[W2L]

Sometimes love must be strong and act against its *kind nature* (not really, but it can seem so, at least at first) in order to rebuke and correct. Rebuking and correcting are very high forms of love for this very reason...we must by-pass our desire to just want to get along and be kind in order to reach out in love to correct with the aim of saving a soul or to prevent a soul from going astray, knowing that soul/person may very well despise us for doing so.

I believe correcting others is something that needs to be done carefully, gently, and yes correction is love, i agree.

 

[W2L]

See here for more:

Just "be" "Love"... What more do we need to know than this...? It is the entire point of...

Peace,

God Bless!

I will be watching your thread. Thank you.

 

[W2L]

Romans chapters 13-15 are about the law of love. The apostle paul was sensitive to the conscience of others, and he wouldn't eat meat if it caused his brother to stumble. That's love.

 

[W2L]

Another good scripture.

James 3:17New King James Version (NKJV)
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

 

[timewerx]

Too late I guess

 

[W2L]

Too late I guess

I dont get the joke, but thank you for participating.

 

[Douglas Hendrickson]

Love changes hearts to flesh. I agree.

If that's what you think, might want to check out another recent thread,

"Fleshly" What Are You Talking About??

 

[W2L]

If that's what you think, might want to check out another recent thread,

"Fleshly" What Are You Talking About??

thank you, i will.

 

[Douglas Hendrickson]

buzuxi02 said: ↑
Agape as used in the NT, is to do what is needed and necessary to the one who is loved. The one who acts out of love sacrifices his own best interests and even the self-interests and yearnings of the one being loved to accomplish what is needed not what is wanted.
Agape in classical Greek has nothing to do with modern day reincarnations, it was a philosophical term.
This is why in scripture Agape is many times coupled with the ultimate sacrifice. For God so loved the World that He sent his only begotten Son... There is no greater gift that this. That a man give up his life for his friends. Men love your wives like Christ loved his Church and gave up his life for her... etc
It is not in anyone's natural inclinations to die but love presupposes an act that overcomes natural willing, self interests, and the resolve do the painful neccesity regardless of either the one who loves to the one being loved. In some ways it can even cease to be a moral quality, opting to remove medical care for someone you love for example. When God destroyed Sodom. It's the agonizing choice to do what is necessary to liberate the one you love.

Thank you for your words.

So should your "love" go all the way, all the way to MURDER of your "loved one," (i.e. active euthanasia)?