The Bible says that God is love (1John 4:8,16).?

Question

What do you think God is?

Answer 1

uh not real,a figment of a wild imagination

Answer 2

Actually, yes God is love. Love is the most powerful thing. It ties us and binds us to one another and gives us strength. It gives us will and power. Thus love is God and love is powerful. In every religion there is at least one statement about how love is the most powerful thing. After that is knowledge and wisdom. Right in the bible God said that love is THE most important thing in life. However most people don't realize that line is in the bible. So yes God is love... that's why true love never dies.

Answer 3

as a results of fact Love isn't Jealous whilst it is between human beings. whilst it is directed at different gods or idols then it relatively is a sin. in case you relatively need an academic answer I advise you examine God A Biography with the aid of Jack Miles. It seems at God as a results of fact the main significant character of the Bible and is going with the aid of all of his regulations and his relationship with the peoples of the earth.

Answer 4

God is every good quality that there is.
Only the highest virtues.
He is perfect.
I can't quite grasp the height of that.
The type of love described id the love given that expects no return.
I think that a word we have to describe that is Charity.
The giving LOVE.
His name is Jesus.

Answer 5

GOD IS ... HOLY

Holiness is the purity of God; His separation from, and hatred of all evil. To clarify, God's holiness is the cause of His justice and righteousness. Justice and righteousness are the ways in which God acts as a result of His holiness. Specifically, justice means that God deals with men fairly. It is His holiness that requires Him to punish sin or bring wrath upon those who do not conform to His perfection. Out of God's holiness comes the doctrine of just retribution (punishment).

Holiness occupies the foremost rank among the attributes of God. It is the attribute by which God wanted to be especially known in Old Testament times (Leviticus 11:44f; Joshua 24:19; 1 Samuel 6:20; Psalm 22:3; Isaiah 40:25; Ezekiel 39:7; Habakkuk 1:12). It is emphasized by the bounds set about Mt. Sinai when God came down upon it (Exodus 19:12-15), the division of the tabernacle and temple into the holy and most holy places (Exodus 26:33; 1 Kings 6:16, 19), the prescribed offerings that must be brought if an Israelite would approach God (Leviticus 1-7), the special priesthood to mediate between God and the people (Leviticus 8-10), the many laws about impurity (Leviticus 11-15), the feasts of Israel (Leviticus 23), and the special position of Israel in Palestine (Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 33:28f). The Lord is called "the Holy One" some thirty times in Isaiah alone (cf. the use of "holy" with regard to the Son, Acts 3:14, and the Spirit, Ephesians 4:30).

In the New Testament, holiness is ascribed to God with less frequency than in the Old, but it is not wanting (John 17:11; Hebrews 12:10; 1 Peter 1:15f). John declares, "God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). The angels round about the throne call out antiphonally, "Holy, Holy, Holy" (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8). Because of the fundamental character of this attribute, the holiness of God, rather than the love, the power, or the will of God, should be given first place. Holiness is the regulative principle of all three of them, for His throne is established on the basis of His holiness.

Three important things should be learned from the fact that God is holy:

1. There is a chasm between God and the sinner (Isaiah 59:1f; Habakkuk 1:13). Not only is the sinner estranged from God, but God is estranged from the sinner. Before sin came, man and God had fellowship with each other; now that fellowship is broken and impossible.

2. Man must approach God through the merits of another if he is to approach Him at all. Man neither possesses nor is able to acquire the sinlessness which is necessary for access to God. But Christ has made such access possible (Romans 5:2; Ephesians 2:18; Hebrews 10:19f). In God's holiness lies the reason for the atonement; what His holiness demanded, His love provided (Romans 5:6-8; Ephesians 2:1-9; 1 Peter 3:18).

3. We should approach God "with reverence and awe" (Hebrews 12:28). A correct view of the holiness of God leads to a proper view of the sinful self (Psalm 66:18; 1 John 1:5-7). Job (40:3-5), Isaiah (6:5-7) and Peter (Luke 5:8) are striking examples of the relation between the two. Humiliation, contrition, and confession flow from a scriptural view of God's holiness.

The Psalmist calls us to worship God on the basis of His holiness: "For holy is the Lord our God" (Psalm 99:9). And Isaiah witnessed the angels worshiping God: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts ..." (Isaiah 6:3). The threefold reference to God's holiness is the Hebrew way of intensifying a statement of quality by repeating it three times. In other words, God is supremely and perfectly holy.

The righteousness and justice of God is that aspect of God's holiness which is seen in His treatment of the creature. God has instituted a moral government in the world, imposed just laws upon the creatures, and attached sanctions thereto. Because of the latter, He executes His laws through the bestowal of rewards and punishments. The distribution of rewards is called remunerative justice (Deuteronomy 7:9-13; 2 Chronicles 6:15; Psalm 58:11; Matthew 25:21; Romans 2:7; Hebrews 11:26). Remunerative justice is based on divine love, not strict merit. The infliction of punishment is called punitive justice. It is the expression of divine wrath (Genesis 2:17; Exodus 34:7; Ezekiel 18:4; Romans 1:32; 2:8f; 2 Thessalonians 1:8).

Justice demands punishment of the sinner - God cannot make a law, establish a penalty, and then not follow through if the law is disobeyed. When the law is violated, punishment must be meted out, either personally or vicariously. In other words, justice demands punishment of the sinner, but it may also accept the vicarious sacrifice of another, as in the case of Christ (Isaiah 53:6; Mark 10:45; Romans 5:8; 1 Peter 2:24).

The righteousness of God is revealed in:

1. His punishing the wicked (Revelation 16:5-7);
2. vindicating His people from evildoers (Psalm 129:1ff);
3. forgiving the penitent of their sin (1 John 1:9);
4. keeping promises made to His children (Nehemiah 9:7ff); and
5. rewarding the faithful (Hebrews 6:10).

Some may suggest that the infliction of punishment is primarily for reformation or rehabilitation, but the chief end of punishment is the maintenance of justice. Punishment may serve a secondary purpose of reformation or deterrence (1 Timothy 5:20).

God's righteousness is an encouragement to the believer in that:
1. he knows that God judges righteously (Acts 17:31);
2. he is secure in the righteousness of Christ (John 17:24; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21); and
3. the righteous things he has done will not go unnoticed (Proverbs 19:17; Hebrews 6:10; Revelation 19:8).

The righteousness and justice of God are ascribed to God (2 Chronicles 12:6; Ezra 9:15; Nehemiah 9:33; Isaiah 45:21; Daniel 9:14; John 17:25; 2 Timothy 4:8; Revelation 16:5). Abraham ponders, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?" (Genesis 18:25). The Psalmist declares that "Righteousness and Justice are the foundation of Thy throne" (Psalm 89:14; 97:2).

Answer 6

A Myth, Just like all the other Gods. Only this one has been more troublesome.

Answer 7

Someone who loves me so much that I can hardly stand it. I don't want to settle for anything less than Him ever again.

Answer 8

Someone who loves me for me, knows me better than I know myself and cares what happens to me even when I don't

God is love

Answer 9

God is truly love. He loved us before we first loved Him. He gave us His only begotten son as gift of love.

Because of his love towards you, you now able to take a breath, it's God who wills for you to be alive. He loves you He loves you.

What you should do, just to surrender your life and live for Him. Amen.

1John 4:
verse 7.......for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[b] into the world that we might live through him.

10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[c] our sins.

11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.

18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19We love because he first loved us.

20If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Answer 10

first of all God is not a what, is a He