Question on God's creation of romantic love?

Question

Please tell me God created falling in love with someone to mean falling in love with the person for who they are/their personality. Some people claim falling in love is simply a chemical reaction/attraction between the chemicals in 2 bodies. If this is the case, love doesn't seem so special anymore. I honestly don't think God would create something as special as romantic love just to mean an attraction of bodily chemicals between 2 people. Please tell me God created romantic love to mean more than this-to love a person for who they are (to find a deep emotional connection to someone) rather than simply a chemical attraction between chemicals in the body.

Answer 1

Love between a husband and wife is more than just chemicals, it involves concern for the welfare of your spouse, selflessly taking action to protect them (ie. husband donates a kidney to his spouse), unselfishness, patience, gentleness, tenderness, and much more. The romantic relationship between spouses should involve love, commitment and intimacy.

Anger does cause adredaline rushes and does have a cardiovascular impact, but anger is more than just the physical process that goes on in the body.

Hope this helps!


1 Corinthians 13:4-7

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.



Ephesians 5:21-33 (New International Version)

21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives and Husbands

22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."[c] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Footnotes:

Ephesians 5:5 Or kingdom of the Christ and God
Ephesians 5:26 Or having cleansed
Ephesians 5:31 Gen. 2:24

Answer 2

I believe that God created love for the inside. For people to see the inside of what and who people are. If you believe the whole thing that love is an attraction of bodily chemicals, then its not really love but more in the attractive side. Which also may lead to "real love". Most people wold usually fall in love with someone that they have known for a while, like a best friend. The problem with the society now is that they would rather date people and find true love by going out with every person that they see. That's nots really how it works cause most of the time you usually attract the wrong kind of people. Just my opinion.

Answer 3

There certainly are chemicals involved because that is actually what our hormones are... but that is NOT the whole story.
Romantic love is 'real' as far as it truly IS a reaction to bind the two people together in a sort of "spell" of perfection so there will be that initial period before the "unconditional COMMITMENT". True love IS nothing more than "commitment" to stick it out even when it isn't feeling special! This has nothing to do with people STAYING in abusive or neglectful situations, supporting illegal or immoral behaviors, or being a victim to pain or crime. It is about normal processes of relationships and their growth and their UP'S AND DOWN'S. All people have differences of opinions and quarrels when the "romantic love" is NOT present, and true COMMITMENT OF LOVE is what holds the relationship. After the intial "romance" phase, which is stronger and longer in some than in others, the commitment is the revelation of the character of the people in the relationship. Romance returns and even lasts all along the way, but is just too intense and non-practical for any adults to live daily. Oooooo, to return to that initial ecstacy!! But the long-term relationship is WONDERFUL.., because the "drama" is over and the certainty and peace and depth is so good!
True love, honor, respect, yielding, forgiveness, understanding and wisdom are BUILT by time and patience.
Romance and Commitment both are NECESSARY and DESIRABLE!

Answer 4

Honestly, SEXUAL love is based upon Physical and Hormonal//Chemical reactions between two bodies. ROMANTIC love is...well, hun, that's completely up to opinion. If you want to believe that your God created romantic love because he wanted you to be attracted to your partner mentally and spiritually as well as physically, then, have faith in your ideals, and don't let what people tell you otherwise get you down.

As long as you're not Ignorant. -Sex- is something everything that CAN breed does; it's a base chemical//physiological reaction combining the pheromones of people with the chemicals set in your brain that hardwire you towards what you're most attracted to in another member of your Species.

LOVE, however, is whatever you want it to be, because it is the most special and personal thing we, as humans, have. If that's a gift from higher powers, so be it, and accept it gracefully.

Answer 5

Love IS a chemical reaction of the body, but the special thing about it is that it doesn't just come out of nowhere. You need to be attracted to them all the right ways and have a certain connection in order to feel the physical effects of love.

Answer 6

To love someone, you have to know them first. How can we love what we don't know?

God created pheromones so that men and women can become attracted to one another. God created "chemistry," but chemistry is not the same as falling in love. It's falling in like. In other words, it's infatuation. God created infatuation.

Some beleive in love at first sight. I do not. You have to know someone to love them, and this is impossible for two strangers. Ah, but at first sight, this is certainly possible, and happens all the time.

You are right, falling in love is much more than what happens with pheromones.

Answer 7

yeah it has to with who the person is...don't worry,k? chemicals come from the physical attraction, but there is a much deeper meaning in love. Just use yourself as an example, do you think you can fall in love with a rude, intolerant, jerk who likes to drink his pee? nope, why? because YOU wouldn't like his personality or who he is..see? there is a deeper meaning, unless...your body chemicals would like that kinda guy, hmmm...nah nah, there most def is a deeper meaning to love than just body chem

Answer 8

if the chemicals wear off in a year it is only that those chemicals that started the attraction weren't enough to keep it going , however if they adhere it means that the 2 s relationship is worth keeping together

Answer 9

Q: Please tell me God created falling in love with someone to mean falling in love with the person for who they are/their personality.

A: God created falling in love with someone to mean falling in love with the person for who they are/their personality. .

Answer 10

he created eve to be a companion as well to increase the population