Do you believe that love is a supernatural phenomenon that cannot be explained or do you believe it is a balance of neurotransmitters in your brain? I asked this question earlier geared toward non-believers.
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We live in a natural world so I am more inclined to lean toward a biological explanation. God is outside of our natural world, so we cannot view Him from a biological perspective. So His love for us, in my opinion, would be on a more supernatural scale. Whereas, our love for Him and others is on a more natural scale. What do you think?
2007-12-12 08:19:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Love is a trait which causes you to care for someone; in turn that person cares for you. In a biological sense we are selfish creatures, so it's a stalemate of survival tactics. An equal feeling of affection and empathy for one another increases chances of survival. Two as one; we become stronger, and two creatures with this trait are more likely to survive. Makes sense, perhaps on an evolutionary scale as well as a spiritual one. God in fact did grant us natural survival traits, or we would not be here today; I'd imagine he is crafty enough to do so =)
2007-12-12 08:35:46 · answer #1 · answered by Sam 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Love is charity.
The passage from 1 Corenthian's 13 says it best with:
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Mother Teresa says:
• Love is doing small things with great love.
• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
• Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
• The greatest science on Earth and in Heaven is love.
2007-12-12 08:24:23 · answer #2 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Greater love hath no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 John 4:18-21.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4ff.
2007-12-12 08:33:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋