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15 paź 2017 · God’s love was everlasting, implying that God’s heart was, and is, perfect, whole, and complete. God made a point of expressing that He drew us close to Him with חָֽסֶד ( chesed )… which has been translated as lovingkindness, loyal love, mercy or covenant loyalty.
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?
1 lip 2024 · Phileo is often defined as brotherly love, agape is an unconditional love and eros is an erotic love. Hebrew actually has four words for love. English has just one word for love – love. We love everything from our family, friends, pet dog Sparky, and Big Macs. We throw that word love around like the words hello, hi, how ya doin’.
5 mar 2008 · God does not lie. And God loves us. Therefore, God’s love is the final Truth of existence. Another author says the same thing with the sentence “God is love.” Paul’s version of this fact draws the connection between love and truth so tightly that one without the other is unthinkable.
It might seem more plausible to argue that agape appeared in the New Testament because the writers were familiar with the Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures. However, this also is insufficient to account for the facts.
25 gru 2005 · 1. “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny.
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?
