If that question is genuine , there must b false love. What is that one also?
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2007-09-01 05:04:10 · 14 answers · asked by cleopatra 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It has to do with motives.
True love is unselfish altruism, when you seek to benefit the other even when it is at a loss to yourself.
False love is when "love" is actually selfish, motivated by a love of yourself. It is when you act like you love someone but it is only so that you can manipulate them for your own benefit.
1Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
2007-09-01 05:21:59 · answer #1 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good question !
"False love" is not a spiritual Reality, but there is plenty of human hate (lack of love caused by an emotional lower animal nature that some humans can not yet overcome.)
True love is the desire to do good to all others, even to your so-called "enemies", as you know or sincerely believe that Jesus Christ would do.
Doing lust or deception is not love at all. All should first pray and reflect in their Spirit of God-led soul and mind the consequences of all planned actions and statements.
Saying "Wise progress in peace, wisdom and joy in Truth" (or any other words you are inspired to use) is more real than saying the trite "good luck" or "good chance" or "good fortune" which came from very ancient, primitive, false religious beliefs. Most humans who think they had "good luck" later become disappointed; some so-called "mis-fortunes" later turn out to be good for their soul growth.
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2007-09-01 05:26:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't understand exactly what you mean by "true" love or "false" love.
If by "true" you mean unconditional love, I don't think that's even possible. Love is an emotion and like all emotions it arises only under certain conditions. Even if you love your children, the fact that they are your children is the condition. And why do think not many people fall in love with fat, ugly, stupid jerks?
Conversely, by "false" I suppose you mean conditional loves. And I think that's the only kind of love possible. People say they love someone when they are dependent on them for essential needs or emotional fulfillment. When a child says they love a parent, I think its because the parent enables their survival. And, in the case of many women who are married to abusive or chronically unfaithful husbands, they usually give "love" as the reason they stay with the husband. But in these cases, the women are economically dependent on the husband or so emotionally beaten down that they don't feel capable of finding a new man, which I think is are real reasons they don't leave.
2007-09-01 05:18:03 · answer #3 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
True love is complete, unconditional, magnificent, all encompassing adoration for, and acceptance of, an individual. Flaws, mistakes, choices, beliefs, and trails never affect true love.
I believe false love, then, is the kind of love that some religions attribute to God. The individual is supposedly loved "unconditionally & totally", but only under certain conditions....a paradox. If they "sin", don't give 10% of their income in tithes, or don't accept the dogma & tenets of the church, they will suffer for eternity. Punishment, shame, judgement, and damnation. What kind of love is that? False, is what.
2007-09-01 05:08:30 · answer #4 · answered by Ciespi 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
True love is saving the human race from damnation with Christ's own blood spilled for us on the cross, and by the scourges of hate. False love is the doctrine of George W Bush, who loves only his own image.
2007-09-01 05:10:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True love...
...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 persevers. Love never fails. (I Cor. 13).
False love is jealous, self-seeking, selfish, petty, manipulative, hot-tempered, dishonest, vindictive, needy, pessimistic, insecure, and/or violent. Take your pick...if any of these things are influencing a relationship, it is not "true love" it is "false" love!
2007-09-01 05:23:12 · answer #6 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When 2 people can stick together through thick & thin, forgive each other for wrongdoings, love each other unconditionally, and feel like no matter what kind of sacrifices they must make, their lives would feel incomplete w/o each other.
2007-09-01 05:17:21 · answer #7 · answered by bsmmn5 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True love is the willingness to lay down your life for your friends. It is caring for the well being of another, while expecting nothing in return. It is to love one another as Jesus loves us.
2007-09-01 05:15:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unrequited love is false love.
2007-09-01 05:09:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is creative power. Anything that calls itself love but destroys, is a lie.
2007-09-01 05:26:33 · answer #10 · answered by judysbookshop 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋