It wasn't until the reading of this story that a thought dawned on me. Love is contained in three parts just as God is. Jesus can be closely related to a brotherly love yet at the same time displays all three because He came to earth as our friend yet He was God. God the father can be seen as having Agape love yet being God is love and encompasses all three but when most people think of God he is thought of as unconditionally loving. The Holy Spirit is the pure form of Eros love in the respect that He is the most intimate of the three and He dwells within us giving us a love language to speak to our father above and our best friend proclaiming our love for them and at the same time the Spirit still encompasses all three forms of love. This story was great and I thoroughly enjoy the revelation that I have obtained from reading it.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Lubby Dubby
This whole story on what love really is and the venture the man takes to try and define exactly what love is and understand how love operates reminded me of a time in my younger years when i set out to define love. I searched for nearly six months devouring the Bible and searching online for different texts that could encompass all that love is and bring about a definition that could be simplified and understood by the mind of a sixteen year old boy. As I searched I found that God was love. That was the simple definition that was found. God is love. That being too easy I found three different forms of love that together made an all encompassing love. Eros was the first part of that love and that is the physical shallow form of love that is applied to the outer aspects of a person and is purely for the feelings that one gets back. Eros is defined as intimate love and that is where you get your erotica books from. Philos is a deeper form of love that can be described as brotherly love which is the direct meaning of philos being brother. Hence Philadelphia being the city of love. The greatest form of love is Agape love which is shown in how a mother loves a child. That love never leaves and it is specifically in a mother loving a child and also in God in the way he has done so much for us. Agape is unconditional and neverending.
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It's good to have theological categories to understand and explain love. But, to live it, to be come it--that's another matter altogether! In that regard, I have to agree with Mel: "We're just beginners . . ."
ReplyDeleteI agree and think that is why most relationships fail today because people get too focused on the ideal and the definition and not the practical application.
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