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Founder & Teacher, desiringGod.org. Love in the Bible, as in our everyday usage, can be directed from person to person or from a person to things. When directed toward things, love means enjoying or taking pleasure in those things. Love towards persons is more complex. As with things, loving persons may mean simply enjoying them and taking ...
Jul 26, 2024 · Here are several key implications that this attribute - God is love - that is for all people today. 1. We can trust in God’s Love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 gives several descriptions of love: " Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily ...
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God is Love. Once I become an atheist I didnt see any foundation for objective morality, so I gave it up. But when I started to look into it, I don’t think adding God is a foundation for objective morals. For example: did murder have any value before god gave it a sin value. If the answer is no then there is nothing objectively wrong about ...
The Bible containing God's Word presupposes God's existence and whoever accepts the Holy Scriptures as an authority must first presuppose God's existence to accept the Bible's authority to be God's Word. One can show with the Bible how God wanted to be known by his people according to his revelation and how the people in the past thought about ...
Oct 3, 2013 · Love is at the heart of the Bible. God loved us so much he sent his only be- loved Son to love us by blood, so that we would likewise love and treasure this be- loved Son (John 3:16, Revelation 1:5). But that doesn’t tell the full story. On the cross, Christ initiated a love to break our love -less sin, to gift us with new hearts, and to make ...
Jun 18, 2024 · The Bible teaches us that God's essence is love. This means that love defines who God is. In 1 John 4:8 and 4:16, it says that "God is love." This verse shows us that everything God does is because of His love for us. The phrase "God is love" means that love is not just one of God's attributes but is at the very core of His being.
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May 28, 2021 · It uses the noun. “God is love .”. John describes love not as one of God’s actions, or even as one of God’s attributes, but as God’s very nature. John points to God as love’s true source ( 1 John 4:7 ). God has many attributes, and without even one of them, he would cease to be God. But love is his core motivation and his greatest ...
