Is the meaning of LOVE, different for......?

Question

Christians, than it is for non-Christians ???

Sometimes we read too much into a question....... .And often, we are mistaken about the true meaning of that question. To be clear, after reading many questions and answers, it appears to me that there is a difference in the true meaning of LOVE. And BTW, I am in no way saying that non-Christians do not know Love, I just think there may be a difference in interptetation. And that's why I'm asking. Thank you and God Bless.

Answer 1

id say so, because christians can feel God's love, but non-christians cannot...even though it is there, they dont believe it, therefore cant feel it. when you love someone other than God (spouse, family member..whatever), you can feel God in that too, whereas non-christians love out of selfishness

Answer 2

No, I wouldn't say it was a difference in the religion but a difference in the individual person. Some people think love is forever and some think its just a momentary thing until they find someone else. But i believe most people feel the same way about Love, no matter what religion

Answer 3

To see "LOve"s meaning different in christians and non-christians itself is a racial thinking, Love is heavenly, you cannot see difference in it. One should understand there is only one GOD and there is no Christian GOD and Muslim GOD, if one thinks that there is different GOD then they are making their own GOD little. Same way when one say there is difference in the meaning of LOve in different religions, he/she is just making the same mistake of making their GOD too small or selfish. Where as it is possible each individual understand Love in different ways but that cannot be viewed in with any racial or religious perceptions. Love is just love only, it has no conditions and all the love comes from God.

Answer 4

I think those who are saved know the true meaning of love that comes from Christ. There is no greater love than the love Christ shows. His love is unconditional. As far as the love we show as saved people it varies. Some saved people show more love than others and some it seems their love is like that of a sinner. We have conditions on our love. We will love you if you love us back or show some kind of kindness, Christ just loves. He has no conditions.

Answer 5

Obviously we all have our personal definition of love.
Most of us think its a warm fuzzy feeling of charm.
The best definition is in the Bible at 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Answer 6

i think for all individuals, they have their own perception of love,,,,,, im sure if you polled many christians of the many different christian faiths,,,,,, you would get various answers of what gods love for them and their love for god means,,,,,,, also remember, there is a large group of believers in Jesus, who do not follow organized christianity as a religion so hence do not label theirselves christian ,,,, so while they are classified as non-christian perhaps,, their answers to love, and religious love, might be very similar to a christians

Answer 7

I do think your right...
The love given to a believer is not the same love as of the flesh. It goes beyond ourselves and penetrates through the thickest of walls

Answer 8

Well I will give you the meaning of Love as the Bible declares it. in this case Charity is also Love.

1Corinthians 13: - 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Love (charity), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love (charity), I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love (charity), it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love (Charity) suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; love (charity) vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Love (Charity) never faileth:
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Love (charity).

Love is also part of God Justice - Revelation 3:19 - As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

That the exercise of God's love is according to His own Sovereign pleasure is also clear from the language of Ephesians 1:3-5, where we read, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will." It was "in love" that God the Father predestined His chosen ones unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, "according"—according to what? According to some excellency He discovered in them? No. What then? According to what He foresaw they would become? No; mark carefully the inspired answer—"According to the good pleasure of His will."

We are not unmindful of the fact that men have invented the distinction between God's love of complacency and His love of compassion, but this is an invention pure and simple. Scripture terms the latter God's "pity" (see Matt. 18:33), and "He is kind unto the unthankful and the evil" (Luke 6:35)!

Answer 9

Meanings of love vary from person to person and it is the most misused word in the world.

Answer 10

I think that unconditional love speaks for itself!
One must first understand it, and then conciously practice it!

Yes, I think us "Non's" have a very different definition of "LOVE".