What do you think the word "love" means?? What does it mean to be in a loving relationship with someone?? What is the difference between the type of love that Jesus teaches us about, compared to the type of love that we see on television and in the movies??
Pls Help... confused
2006-12-13 13:48:35 · 17 answers · asked by M S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Six kinds of love:
Love as in Family: These people, you have grown up with them. They are your kin. You laugh, you have a good time, you trust each other, and you mourn when they die.
Love as in Friend: These people are people you can trust, have a good time with, be a looney around, just have fun. These people are there for you.
Love as in Mentor: These people have taught you so much, you just appreciate their help and support.
Love as in Deity: This person created you, loves you, and wants you to have a good life. God is in this category.
Love as in Romance: You love this person so much, you feel the urge to spend the rest of your life with this person and have a family with this person, you understand each other and are much more than friends.
Love as in Neighbor: This is more like an acquaintenship or an acknowledgement that you are of the same species.
2006-12-13 13:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's real. It exists even though we can't see it. The evidence for it is the extremes to which people will go for a loved one. It is also the evidence for something else we cannot see which is the family bond. Love exists in a place we cannot see which is in the soul. That's real love.
The kind of love we see on tv is probably more like lust. It seems that love isn't portrayed on tv much, though it was potrayed well in the movie"When a Man Loves a Woman."
2006-12-13 21:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we love that which gives us pleasure or meets our needs. A mother may love one of her children more than another because that child gives her more pleasure or in some way fulfills her mothering instinct to a greater extent. Men and women love each other when they fulfill each others need for attention, affection, domination, sex, whatever. When those needs go away or are no longer being met they become ex's.
This is all very different than the kind of love Jesus taught which is the selfless, love you enemies kind. Sadly, I don't think very many people ever attain selfless love
2006-12-13 22:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that God is love so who better than to teach us about love and how to love. To put it simply, love is a decision, not a feeling. Otherwise, that would be romantic love or even lust. The type of love that Jesus teaches about is dying to self to serve another. We must CHOOSE to love. I don't think the media has an accurate depiction of what love is, at least in the sense of what God means to love. That's more of a secular, worldly viewpoint.
2006-12-13 21:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by kakolikapiha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True love wants to serve the object of its love.
Selfish love wants to be gratified by the object of its love.
The type of love that you see on TV is the selfish lustful kind of love. To be in a loving relationship means that you will continue to love unconditionally. You will continue to care about the welfare of the other. That is the kind of love that Jesus taught. LOVE IS AN ACTION.
2006-12-14 00:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Think "Love" is Depends on what you mean. Family Love is the Love you have for your mother father and siblings. While you could have a Love for the opposite sex. 2 Types of Love "Family Love" and "Personal Love"
2006-12-13 21:54:24 · answer #6 · answered by ordinaryfrog12 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We cannot really know what love is, at this level. The nearest we can come to "love" is when we no longer exist and there is only the beloved. Self is out of the equation.
2006-12-13 22:03:24 · answer #7 · answered by Nedspeak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One word- SACRFICE, never recieving, but giving
Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
*** Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ***
2006-12-13 21:55:28 · answer #8 · answered by readthekjv1611@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love, the true feeling of affection, and in so being, the strength & grace to give up your life to save theirs. This is the truest loves of all loves.
2006-12-13 21:53:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a word used to describe an emotion that cannot be described in any other way.
2006-12-13 21:51:52 · answer #10 · answered by Magus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋