excistence of God also deny the existence of love?
2006-08-24 00:29:03 · 10 answers · asked by zorro 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most people do not have the slightest idea what love is.
2006-08-24 00:40:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily, no. It is the scripture found at 1 John 4:8 which says that God is love. It is located in the Christian Greek Scriptures (that part of the Bible commonly referred to as the New Testament). It was written in Greek. The Greek word here rendered love is agape. It means love based on righteous principles. But there are different Greek words for different types of love: romantic love (eros), love between friends (philia), and love for family (storgé). So even if one rejected the scripture which teaches that God is love, these other types of love would still exist and therefore, that person does not necessarily deny love.
2006-08-24 07:39:09 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would HAVE to mean that Christians have to accept that non-Christians know and feel God (love) - since most people do, even if they do not believe in a deity. It would also mean that non-christians would have to accept that they believe in God (love) but not necessarily someone to worship. If God is love, or love is God, then all feeling creatures believe, they just do not believe in the propaganda and distortion of the religious traditions and behaviors.
2006-08-24 07:41:26 · answer #3 · answered by arvecar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all you are implying that christians have the absolute truth, making the premise of (God = Love) true always. You can't say that because as a christian you have to respect others beliefs...
Then again maybe you are refering to the logical sequence:
God (implies ->) Love
In that case, a logical conclusion would be:
(No Love) implies -> (No God)
Not the other way around, since some other things might also imply Love.
2006-08-24 07:36:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe god is love. The bible is full of passages where god slaughtered whole nations of people so the isralites could live there without going back to idolatry
Then of course the Inquisition and the crusades. To me this does not even imply love.
2006-08-24 07:43:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So what you're saying is that the aztecs and mayans, millions upon millions of people, were incapable of love for thousands of years because they didn't know about God? But then when Cortez and the europeans came and slaughtered them all in the name of God, then they knew what love was...
I can't believe some of these questions....
2006-08-24 07:36:42 · answer #6 · answered by 006 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Umm, no...
If they deny the existence of God then they have a different definition of love.
2006-08-24 07:30:52 · answer #7 · answered by sueflower 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Denying the existence of God is denying the existence of any example of love, so how can one define love if there is no God?
Hmmmm....
2006-08-24 07:33:47 · answer #8 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no if you don't believe in god that doesn't mean that you do not believe in love as you get all the things once in your life as per your requirement you automatically starts believing in god.
2006-08-24 07:40:35 · answer #9 · answered by cute_sunidhi2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you despise Christianity and its followers beliefs then I say,Yes!
Love is respect and Respect is Love.
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2006-08-24 07:37:54 · answer #10 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋