2007-03-07 11:45:01 · 7 answers · asked by Micah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
See 1 Corinthians 13...
Biblical love is not the same as humanistic or secular love. It means to love others selflessly regardless of what the other person does or says. That can be difficult. Imagine loving someone who has hurt you, lied about you, hurt your family, stolen from you, is constantly mean and beligerant towards you? That is Biblical love...
Jesus asked: "What good is it if you only love those who love you?" Instead He told us to love and pray for our enemies and those who hate us. Jesus demonstrated this by loving those who beat, whipped, mocked, spit on and crucified him by saying: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." That is perhaps the best example...
2007-03-07 11:48:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are several classifications of love:
Agape: unconditional love (God's)
Eros: physical love...lust ie man and wife (just one aspect of love in a couple's relationship)
Philos: friendly love
There is one more type of love that I forgot the name of which is a familial love ie between a father and son etc.
I hope this answers the questions
2007-03-07 19:53:03 · answer #2 · answered by US456 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is our human earthly love, and there is a spiritual heaven love that is on another level, it is much greater felt. This earthly love is good for us here, but doesn't compare. God's love is even greater than all, since his capacity is larger.
The meaning of love is God.
2007-03-07 19:58:21 · answer #3 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you reads bible, the nyou must knoiw it is kind of love that only jesus himself showed! after all, did he not heal the sick, make the lame walk, and the blind amn see? now that is love! and he told the apostles right down to us people today to do the same thing! did he not! lay down his very life for us, so we could have life? now that is the kind of love it meant! be a brother to every person you meet, until he proves otherwise! and even then, christ forgave the people who killed him! he is the ultimate example of how we should conduct ourselves morally!
2007-03-07 19:50:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love is the attitude God has firstly towards Himself and then for all of His created beings, especially those sentient beings, men and angels, who have the capacity to perceive and appreciate (rightly value) Him for who He is, and others for who they are as the work of His hands.
It is most perfectly demonstrated through Jesus Christ, and His willing act of self sacrifice in obedience to the Father, to redeem fallen man back to Himself; and secondarily as the proper response of those who have been the beneficiaries of God's redeeming love towards God and their fellow man.
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." ( I John 4:10,11)
2007-03-07 20:01:35 · answer #5 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
love is patient, love is kind, its noesn't covet, it isn't jealous... dont remember the rest of the verse... sorry.
2007-03-07 19:54:55 · answer #6 · answered by love-life 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God
2007-03-07 19:52:41 · answer #7 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋