2007-03-05 03:00:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is your love of God different from your love for kids, family, wife/husband? Is it different from the way you are supposed to love me?
2007-03-05 03:05:56 · update #1
Anyone can answer but I wanted to know why some Christians think they love people they have never met.
2007-03-05 03:06:36 · update #2
jworks: So if God is love, do you God your children? No....God can't BE love. What exactly do you mean?
2007-03-05 03:09:27 · update #3
Love (agape)....unconditional attachment to someone in a personal sense.
2007-03-05 03:05:54 · answer #1 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is very important.
1 Corinthians 13 says:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
2007-03-05 12:04:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First Corinthians 13 defines the characteristics of love. A Christian should exhibit all of these. We don't perfectly, but we need to try.
2007-03-05 11:05:57 · answer #3 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Listen - God is love. The Bible says "For God so loved the world (you and me) that He gave His one and only Son (Jesus), that whoever believes in Him, will not perish but have everlasting (eternal) life." That is real love - that is pure love - God is so good. God has only goodness in Him - His Son Jesus showed us the way. He is the only way - there is no other. Thanks for this wonderful question, dear one. God is so good.
One more thing - We love - because He first loved us - that is why!! He loved us in the beginning and until the end - we show Jesus' love for others - it is one of the commandments - to love others (our neighbors). Blessings to you.
2007-03-05 11:07:13 · answer #4 · answered by jworks79604 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you really want to know, then Love to me, means sharing the Love of Christ with others. Even those who dont (or wont) believe in HIM, that is their choice. And love means loving ALL.
Peace
2007-03-05 11:06:26 · answer #5 · answered by lynjen31 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why are you only asking Christians? I'm pagan and I would love to answer your question!
2007-03-05 11:05:34 · answer #6 · answered by firey_cowgirl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Please go check out the LGBT section and you will see many examples of that good Christian "love"!
2007-03-05 11:07:03 · answer #7 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋