i don't know him peronally but i know what love is and how to love.
2006-09-25 07:39:34 · 21 answers · asked by tandypants 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's cool to believe that, but it's not cool to assume a non-believer is incapable of love. love is a human emotion, you don't receive a box of love as a gift for attending church or believing in god.
2006-09-25 07:51:09 · update #1
This is called the "arrogance of the collective." It's nothing more than a sect-centric stance that says: "If you don't think like we do, then there are profound deficiencies in your life." And all you'll hear is blah, blah, blah - not one iota of anything but "X is love," or "Y is knowledge," etc.
However, when you get to the nuts and bolts of it, you find that in fact their divorce rates, propensity to violence, etc., do NOT indicate any greater love. (Actually, on that account, preliminary numbers seem to be in favor of the LESS religious.)
"God is love" is a slogan used by many whose next sentence might well be to tell you that you deserve to suffer in hell for all eternity if you don't accept their "loving God."
2006-09-25 08:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by JAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is Love.
I once told an atheist/alcoholic lost miserable person I truly & completely loved this:
"To doubt God is to doubt love, and to doubt love is to doubt me."
I am 37, I only found MY personal relationship with Him within the last several years, I am so happy now and see the every day blessings in my life.
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write me and I will gladly share my personal story of restoration and salvation with you!
2006-09-25 14:45:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God is Love.
2006-09-25 14:41:02 · answer #3 · answered by ladyscott 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because in their ignorance of evolution, they fail to realize that love is little more than a sensation and set of behaviors regulated by the brainstem, not even our higher cognitive functions. This is why love doesn't respond to reason -- it is primal and instinctive.
Love is an emergent behavior of the brain, nothing more. But they think it needs to be more than that somehow to be valuable, instead of valuing it as it is.
2006-09-25 14:44:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because only an advanced Soul is capable of true, i.e. unconditional, love. And because God is the most advanced Soul of all, he is capable to love most.
You need not know God personally. If you know what love is and how to love, you have God in your heart, and God loves you.
God is not intersted in religious claims, he is interested in the purity of our hearts.
2006-09-25 14:46:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God id love and to know love you have felt God
2006-09-25 14:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by barbie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think they mean to know and love God...Christians have had a heart changing thing called conversion with the Holy Spirit
2006-09-25 14:42:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called "agape" love. It goes deeper than we can ever try to love on our own. To truly love like God did. Like Jesus did. To give your own life to the undeserving. It is to be a servant. And to have perfect motive.
2006-09-25 14:50:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is Love! And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him!
As someone put it: Love (and I don't mean sex!!) is the answer - whatever the question!
Why not try it and judge for yourself by the results?
2006-09-25 16:21:58 · answer #9 · answered by fresch2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is because God is the source of love and He is the first one who shows us love that is why we have to know GOd.
2006-09-25 14:52:09 · answer #10 · answered by migno_j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋