What is Love (no not the song)?

Question

Christians often say that God loves us. But what does love mean in that sense. Love is an abstract concept. Tell me what love is in the context of a supreme being?
Don't just say "God is love" because God encompasses many thing including wrath, which is evident throughout the Bible, and wrath and love are not synonymous, or are they?.

People maybe you don't know this but you can't use a word to define itself. Don't say that God's love is a perfect love because that doesn't explain anything. Because without a definition to love the sentence doesn't make sense. the same goes for John 3:16.
If love is getting crucified for something that you didn't do well I am sorry to tell you this but a lot of innocent had been so....

If love according to Corinthians keeps no record of wrongs why is there a hell. God loves us. So he doesn't keep track of our sins. So in his eyes we are sinless with or without Jesus right. He loved us before he sent Jesus.

Answer 1

Kindness, compassion, concern, loyalty, longing, enjoying, admiration, wanting to share, to give, self sacrifice, mercy, forgiveness.

BTW, I'm not Christian, nor religious. These are just my definitions on it, exclusive of the Bible.

Answer 2

Love in the context of a supreme being is believe in me or I will send you the pain of a thousand hells. It can't be fatherly love because my own father would not do to me the things that the Christian god would do to his "children."

Acts 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

Matthew
10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew
24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Revelations
9:15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

Hebrews
10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

And that's just a smattering.

Answer 3

Love is an abstract subject but I was talking about it with a friend and he told me the scientific meaning. I didn't memorize it but it was something like beta-endorphins go from one person to the other through the nose and travel to the brain and mess with it or something like that and then the person falls in love. Then he went on to say that love supposedly only last for 2 or 3 years and after that the two people just get used to each other. So then I thought thats what love is getting used to people and not hating or disagreeing with them. When it comes to God then it must mean the same thing. God is "accustommed" to us and has no wrath for us. God is a god of love not of hate or punishment. When the Bible talks about God being wrathful then it must be talking about Jehova. Jehova and God are not the same people. God gives and loves. Jehova punishes and kills. Complete opposites. So since love actually means custom after 2 or 3 years then no it does not mean wrath. Wrath is synonymous with hate. Is hate a synonym for love? NO

Answer 4

Love : Love can mean a couple of things . But God's love means commitment . He is commited to His creation no matter what . God's love is also full of grace ( undeserved favor ) and mercy ( underserved kindness,which is a refraining of punishment really.)
Wrath : God bases our salvation or damnation on acceptance or rejection of Jesus . John 12: 48
It isn't God that is hard , it's people . But after your hard and impenitent heart treasures up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God . Romans 2:5 . Hope this helped to answer your question .

Answer 5

Read John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians chapter 13.

Answer 6

I will liken it to a parent. You create and love your child even before you lay eyes on him/her. You care and nurture them and teach them what they need to know to live a good life. When they mature they get minds of their own they think they know more than their parents did. One day they find their parents indeed did know what they were talking about. The child then humbles himself and returns to his parent and asks forgiveness for being so foolish. The parent then forgives of course, because a parent loves unconditionally and wants nothing more than what is best for their child, The relationship is now restored to what it once was. Now we all know we have to discipline children as they grow up and the discipline for a 17 yr old is different than for a 2 yr old. and at some point we have to let go of our children and let them experience the consequences of their choices. There are times we may be able to help them but there are also times when there is nothing we can do, and all we can do is watch it happen and offer love and comfort.We are human and not capable of being perfect and always knowing exactly what to do, our love is imperfect as we all know there are plenty of parents who don't have the first clue about what love is. But consider what God said. " If we who are not perfect know how to love how much more our Father in heaven knows how to love."

Answer 7

"No word is more misunderstood in our society than the word love. One of the most useful books we can read is C. S. Lewis' unpretentious little masterpiece The Four Loves. There, he clearly distinguishes agape, the kind of love Christ taught and showed, from storge (natural affection or liking), eros (sexual desire), and philia (friendship). It is agape that is the greatest thing in the world.

The old word for agape in English was charity. Unfortunately, that word now means to most people simply handouts to beggars or to the United Fund. But the word love won't do either. It means to most people either sexual love (eros) or a feeling of affection (storge), or a vague love-in-general. Perhaps it is necessary to insist on the Greek word agape (pronounced ah-gah-pay) even at the risk of sounding snobbish or scholarly, so that we do not confuse this most important thing in the world with something else and miss it, for there is enormous misunderstanding about it in our society.

We fall in love but we do not fall in agape. We rise in agape.

God is agape, and agape is not feeling. So God is not feeling. That does not make him or agape cold and abstract. Just the opposite: God is love itself, feeling is the dribs and drabs of love received into the medium of passivity. God cannot fall in love for the same reason water cannot get wet: it is wet. Love itself cannot receive love as a passivity, only spread it as an activity. God is love in action, not love in dreams. Feelings are like dreams: easy, passive, spontaneous. Agape is hard and precious like a diamond.

Love is a flower, and hope is its stem. Salvation is the whole plant. God's grace, God's own life, comes into us by faith, like water through a tree's roots. It rises in us by hope, like sap through the trunk. And it flowers from our branches, fruit for our neighbor's use.

Faith is like an anchor. That's why it must be conservative, even a stick-in-the-mud, like an anchor. Faith must be faithful. Hope is like a compass or a navigator. It gives us direction, and it takes its bearings from the stars. That's why it must be progressive and forward-looking. Love is like the sail, spread to the wind. It is the actual energy of our journey. That's why it must be liberal, open to the Spirit's wind, generous." -Peter Kreeft

http://catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0019.html

Answer 8

i think of from time to time songs sound like love songs (it rather is finding on what form of track you're listening to of course) yet rather they have been written approximately something thoroughly diverse. they are basically in a 'love track' format because of the fact human beings relate greater suitable to it

Answer 9

My definition of the word love is "giving without any expectations of reciprocation" . That would rule out (for me) the God of the bible as being "loving".

Answer 10

The love imparted to people through the Holy Spirit is described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8; ' ... 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 ...