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The Background of Love “God is love,” the writer of 1 John confidently declares. Yet this theologi-cally pleasing statement raises more questions than answers. In saying this, the writer of 1 John does not so much tell us about the nature or identity of God as to address a riddle with another riddle. That is, if God is love, then what is love?
28 lip 2023 · The Hebrew word for love is ahavah, which is rooted in the more molecular word hav, 1 which means to give, revealing that, according to Judaism, giving is at the root of love. What does this etymological insight teach us both about the function of love and about how love functions?
The Bible tells us: "God is Love" (E-lo-HEEM HU a-ha-VAH.) (I John 4:8) God’s kind of love is what mankind needs most: unconditional love, in Hebrew a-ha-VA she-ey-NA te-loo-YA be-da-VAR (The CD gives you the exact, correct Hebrew pronunciation.). God’s love is also sacrificial.
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The Hebrew language, and thus the Hebrew Bible, has a number of different words for love. “ Deus Caritas est ” expounds on the distinction between the Greek terms eros and agape. Yet there does not appear to be a Hebrew equivalent for eros (though there are general words
11 wrz 2023 · The Original Hebrew Bible is a free, public domain, easy-to-read Bible with all 39 books of the Old Testament. Verses are presented in the Original Hebrew script, with an English transliteration and public domain translation.
1 sty 2009 · Perceiving the Old Testament from a Christian point of view sheds new light on a central theological issue thus far underestimated in scholarly research: God's steadfast love.
