Love

Front matter
Connections List
 * Mans role on earth
 * Dictionary
 * Gender
 * 1 John 1
 * Fruit of the Spirit
 * Book of 1 John
 * 1 John 3
 * 1 John 4
 * 1 John 5
 * Properties of God
 * Philippians 1
 * Faith, Hope, Love
 * Community
 * Unity
 * Passive good
 * Peace/Shalom
 * Man and Husband Role
 * Mawage
 * God loves us
 * Emo Carriage
 * Relationship
 * Eros
 * Imitate/conduct God
 * Removal of self
 * Steadfast love
 * Faithfulness, fidelity
 * John 15

Scope
 * Love, broadly

Subtopic connections This page covers general epistemology/def. For subtopics, it covers theological love ( God's love salvation, and our love for God). It spills into love e.a. as well but there is a page for that.
 * Love in American culture / def
 * Christian love practically generally humanitarian
 * Love one another internal (community, unity)

Subtopics on this page
 * Definitions
 * God is love
 * Mech love general
 * Mech love each other
 * Mech love God, be loved by God
 * Gods love for us allows show love to others
 * Notes/rand

Definitions/various
 * 1) agape (theo) "Love is working for the good of someone else regardless of their condition and irrespective of their response." - Stuart Briscoe (I might have it a little wrong)
 * 2) *Loving others may be considered a proof that we have received big love from God - but alternatively we could say it's only proof that we BELEIVE we've received big love from God.
 * 3) *Unconditional love is only justifiable in the presence of infinite power. Take joy in loving people and treat all progress as gifts/joy.
 * 4) puppy love (poems, movies, thought) emotional giddyness, puppy, happiness, selfish, appreciate. Use "appreciate" or related things - enjoy, intoxicated by...
 * 5) Commitment (do you love me?, secular view of marriage) relational commitment. I use with family and promise thru wife.
 * 6) sex (verb in songs) sex. Use the root verb "sex" (substitutions in songs may require helping verbs and tense changes)
 * 7) appreciate (common use) enjoyment. I love this song, cheeseburger, etc. Can probably also be used legitimately of higher pleasures. I love being with my wife.
 * 8) philos. Camaraderie. Towards the same goal.
 * 9) eros (marriage) Desire to consume each other. Romantic love. Includes but is not limited to sexual. Probably strongly connected to loneliness.

Opposite:


 * Opposite of agape: Retaining infinite power (i.e. for God and good humans) the opposite of love is hate (e.g. jacob I loved, esau I hated). However most often with humans we retract to selfishness, so that is the more common opposite of love.
 * Opposite of commitment is selfishness
 * Opposite of all else is dislike, disgust, etc.

Mech
God is love
 * More properly, "God loves" or "God always loves" or "If you love people, you will bring them to God" or love=God.Property(x)
 * If God is reduced to love only (by culture), and then we use cultural definition of love (soft flaky), then God is mushy changing and selfish towards us

Mech/verses love general
 * Obedience facilitates love 1 Peter 1:22 "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart."
 * Love involves knowledge Philippians 1:9 "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowlede and depth of insight", to discern what is best, filled with fruit if righteousness
 * Love is a committment of support. Deuteronomy 7:12 "If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors"
 * Philemon (1):14 "...so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced."

Mech/verses love God and be loved by God
 * Love God by obeying 1 John 5:3 "This is love for God: to obey his commands....", Deut 11:1, Deut 30:16
 * God commands us to love him. Joshua 22:5
 * We ought to love his commands Psalm 119,
 * Love succor 1 John 4:16 "and so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in loves lives in God, and God in them."
 * Gods love mayb seems conditional on obedience (when spoken towards JCs) 1 John 15:10 if you keep my commands, will remain in my love. Deut 7:12. See "actions judgement". However I think at least in John 15, the command is to remain in Gods love (see v9) as opposed to a threat.

Mech/verses love e.a.
 * See "community" page
 * Command to love e.a. 1 John 3:23 "and this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another has he commanded us.", Romans 13:8, 10, Gal 5:14, James 2:8
 * Love e.a. demo/manifest disciples John 13:35 "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

Gods love allows us to love others
 * See emo carriage
 * 1 John 4:7 love e.a. b/c love comes from god, 1 John 4:19

Notes
 * Note in the English language we say "love this cheesburger" and "love my wife". And most often without context love means eros.
 * Note how the vast majority of modern songs are either romantic or talk about sex and drugs. The vast majority of movies include some romance. People are looking a lot for love.