What is love? Is love is just a committing affection?

Question

Where does it derrives? From your heart I think, but there are people
who posses an heart but has no love. Who then put love in our heart?
I think God puts love in people's hearts. What do you think?

Answer 1

Love is merely a higher level of familiarity. It is the acknowledgement of affection. It is vulnerability. It is an advent of human society.

Answer 2

God’s Love: The Biblical Presentation

The modern message of the gospel is "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life." However, our idea of "wonderful" and the world’s may be a little different. Take a sinner through the pages of the Book of Acts and show him the terrifying scene of boulders breaking the bones of Stephen. Then smile and whisper, "Wonderful..." Listen together to the sound of a cat-o’-nine-tails as it rips the flesh off the back of the apostle Paul. Follow together the word "suffering" through the Epistles, and see if you can get the world to whisper, "Wonderful!"

After such a ride down Honesty Road, they may think the pleasures of sin are a little more attractive than the call to "suffer affliction with the people of God." John MacArthur said, "We need to adjust our presentation of the gospel. We cannot dismiss the fact that God hates sin and punishes sinners with eternal torment. How can we begin a gospel presentation by telling people on their way to hell that God has a wonderful plan for their lives?"

Who in the world is going to listen if we are so blatantly honest about the Christian life? Perhaps not as many as are attracted by the talk of a wonderful plan. However, the answer to our dilemma is to make the issue one of righteousness, rather than happiness. This is what Jesus did. He used the Ten Commandments to show sinners the righteous standard of God (Luke 10:25,26; 18:18– 0). Once the world sees the perfect standard by which they will be judged, they will begin to fear God, and through the fear of the Lord, men depart from sin (Proverbs 16:6). They will begin to hunger and thirst after the righteousness that is in Jesus Christ alone.

If you study the New Testament you will see that God’s love is almost always given in direct correlation to the cross: herein is love, for God so loved, God commended His love, etc. (See John 3:16; Romans 5:5,6,8; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 2:4,5; 5:2,25; 1 John 3:16; 4:10; and Revelation 1:5, among others.) The cross is the focal point of God’s love for the world. How can we point to the cross without making reference to sin? How can we refer to sin without the Law (Romans 7:7)?

The biblical way to express God’s love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law—see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ. This was the key to reaching so many on the Day of Pentecost. They were "devout" Jews who knew the Law and its holy demands, and therefore readily accepted the mercy of God in Christ to escape its fearful wrath. When you use the Law to show the world their true state, get ready for sinners to thank you. For the first time in their lives, they will see the Christian message as an expression of love and concern for their eternal welfare, rather than of merely proselytizing for a better lifestyle while on this earth.

Answer 3

There are different kinds of love:

Eros: Romantic love
Philia: Brotherly (or sisterly) love
Storge: Parental love
Agape: Godly love

Eros and philia are based on emotions.

Storge is almost an instinct.

Agape is a decision to wish for the best for someone.

Christians are commanded to love (agape) their neighbors and enemies. This is almost impossible to do without God's help.

Do you love (agape) the terrorists who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center?

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Love is self-sacrificing..

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

There are three types of love.

1. Brotherly Love (Phileo)
-A love you have for a friend that make you want to be there for them

2. Godly Love (Agape)
-The same kind of love that motivated God to sacrifice His son on the cross. And the kind of love CHRISTians are commanded to exhibit in the Bible.

3. Intimate Love (as displayed in the Song of Solomon)
-A kind of love you share with your mate. Whether in or out of the bedroom.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Love is more of an adventure. I do belive god gave us love as well. The only problem is that we were given so much love ( eveybody in the world ) that we simply don't know how to use it. Look into your heart, you'll eventually find what you're looking for.

Answer 6

Love is choosing the best for all involved. Choosing the highest good for the largest possible number of people.

The greek word (Agape) used to denote God's Love towards mankind is not based on emotion, but is "universal unconcerned benevolence".

Answer 7

This is what God says love is...
"He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."
1 John 4:8-11

Answer 8

God has Divine Love, man has love of self. To let God's love into your heart is not to own love but to be a receptacle of God's love.

Answer 9

Some would tell you love is a uniquely human experience. They would be wrong. Love is gravity in another form.They are interchangeable.The laws of attraction are mutually compelling, and both serve to bind bodies in motion. And, wherever two things join to make one, there is love.
Wherever two atoms join to make one, there is love and there is a molecule.
Wherever two molecules join to make one, there is love and there is a cell.
Wherever two cells join to make one, there is love and there is flesh.
Wherever two flesh join to make one, there is love and there is a family.
Wherever two families join to make one, there is love and there is a tribe.
Wherever two tribes join to make one, there is love and there is a nation.
Wherever two nations join to make one, there is love and there is a world.
Wherever two worlds join to make one, there is love and there is a galaxy.
Wherever two galaxies join to make one, there is love and there is a universe.
There is a universe filled with love.

Answer 10

I think real true love is a gift from God.

Answer 11

Let us love one another. He that loves not knows not God.
1 John 4:17

Jesus said, "Love your neighbor".
Mat. 19:19

Love is God, was created by God.