Feeling is changeable and love is described as involving choice, commitment and sacrifice. If so is love something of the mind or of feeligs?
2007-02-05 11:01:21 · 15 answers · asked by bortier e 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-02-05 11:05:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Agape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape
2007-02-05 19:09:24 · answer #2 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our love is both, and a very changeable thing depending on our state of mind. Love is from God, the more you love Him determines how much more you love yourself, others and things of this world because of the understanding He gives to you.
2007-02-05 19:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both depending on the reactions. Love is a committment and Love evokes emotions.
The love of God is complex yet simple. You love your child, yet you do not teach above their comprehension, you do not ignore and hope they learn something. Many of Gods reactions in love are similar to a parent child relationship, which always diverse and varies per childs needs.
Thanks for an intelligent question.
2007-02-13 17:00:46 · answer #4 · answered by PAT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To human beings many times love is a thing of feeling. However, Godly love in not just a feel good thing, it is a decision. If you read 1 Corinthians 13 you will find the perfect meaning of love, from the author of love.
2007-02-05 19:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by angel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.allaboutgod.com/god-is-love.htm
http://joshuakane.diaryland.com/older.html
http://www.trosch.org/the/love.html
"God is Love." This simple yet complex statement is found only twice1, 2 in the Bible and is commonly presented out of context. It is generally misunderstood and often circulated in a fashion that leads many into Hell. The statement –while very easy to make and accept when presented in its undefined form– has a depth of reality far beyond what the average person wants to know even though such knowledge is critical to salvation
2007-02-12 11:53:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's love is Agape which is not emotional but unconditional love.
1 John 4:7 -11
Love is:joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; also our spiritual fruit.
You be the judge of human love what fruit is there?
2007-02-05 19:21:28 · answer #7 · answered by Connie M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's love is an ESSENCE - it is who He is. How that translates to us is twofold. It is both an emotion and a "fruit" - we "feel" love (the emotion) and we "grow" in love (the fruit). Love is one of the fruits of the Spirit and is something that does not depend or rely on "feeling" (the emotional makeup of man). It does however have everything to do with who God is in the Christian. We "love" (the fruit) everyone meaning we strongly, sincerely, personally desire the absolute eternal best of God to be manifested in the other person. This type of love is called agape love or God love because it goes far beyond the normal human capacity to love. When the Christian says to anyone (unbeliever, believer, anyone) that they "love" them they are in effect saying...."I desire God's eternal best in you." Agape Love takes God in you, you cannot truly love to that degree or depth without God.
2007-02-13 03:32:21 · answer #8 · answered by wd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God's love is not based on feelings, which are changable. He does not change, of course. We should show love based in commitment and clear choice that overrides the ups and downs of feelings-based love. What will you do for someone you love when you just feel like doing something for yourself? Agape love, the deepest level and most God-like love, tells us to do for that loved one, whether you feel like it or not. Did Jesus "feel like" being crucified on the cross? No, but He went through it because of committed, perfect, sacrificial love.
2007-02-05 19:12:11 · answer #9 · answered by Bob T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actuall in many horticultural and other tribal cultures, the concept of love dosnt even exist. I think its complete socailized development and evolution of large socail networks to ensure survival in a large populations culture.
Damn i forgot the most popular foragers that have no concept of love. A documentary was done on it. People tride to give examples of loving actions between friends but it was shown how this was just sociological sequence of scrath my back i scrath yours thing. Also it showed signs of raising rank ect.
2007-02-05 19:10:57 · answer #10 · answered by duffmanhb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The love of God is neither primarily emotional or rational; but volitional. This is plain enough from the fact that Jesus Christ commanded His disciples that they "should love one another, as I have loved you" (John 13:34)
Now it is manifest to anyone who knows the simplest laws of how the mind and emotions operate, that you cannot command a feeling. There is a rational element of love, but it is based on a proper assessment or evaluation of the object of that love.
The testimony of the Gospel is, that human beings are so precious in God's eyes, that He, in the person of Jesus Christ, was willing to leave heaven, and condescend to become a member of the human race, so that He could redeem the human race from its damning debt of sin, by taking upon Himself the full consequences of transgressed law, so that the guilty could be forgiven and inherit eternal life. God commands us, as followers of Christ, that we adopt the same value system, and regard the souls of men with the same high estimate that He Himself did. As it is written: "Beloved, if God so loved us; we also ought to love one another." (I John 4:11)
It is a delightful result of obedience to God's command, that when we choose to obey Him and love and properly esteem one another, that the feelings of love inevitably follow.
2007-02-05 19:17:29 · answer #11 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋