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What Is Love
The document explores the multifaceted nature of love, highlighting perspectives from various fields such as psychology, philosophy, and theology. It emphasizes that love is often an action rather than merely a feeling, encompassing different forms like agape and phileo, and underscores the importance of caring for others. Ultimately, it presents love as both a profound blessing and a commitment that transcends mere emotional attachment.
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Explores the general perception of love as a magical sensation linked to attraction.
Discusses various philosophers and writers' perspectives, emphasizing love's complexity and narrative role.
Highlights theological perspectives on love as both an emotional experience and a profound commitment.
Defines love through biblical phrases and attributes, asserting love as an action rooted in spirituality.
Examines specific types of love such as 'Phileo' and 'Agape', supported by biblical references.
Focuses on how actions influence feelings, with a definition of true love based on biblical principles.
Summarizes the command to love God, people, and life, rooted in the essence of agape love.
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- 2. WHAT IS LOVE? Consciouslyor unconsciously, people believe love is a sensation (based on physical and emotional attraction) that magically, spontaneously generates when Mr. or Ms. Right appears.
- 3. WHAT IS LOVE? ErichFromm, "There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love."
- 4. WHAT IS LOVE? Thephysicist: ‘Love is chemistry’ Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist and science writer.
- 5. WHAT IS LOVE? Thepsychotherapist: ‘Love has many aspects’ Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist and author of Couch Fiction.
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- 7. WHAT IS LOVE? Thephilosopher: ‘Love is a passionate commitment’ Julian Baggini is a philosopher and writer.
- 8. WHAT IS LOVE? Theromantic novelist: ‘Love drives all great stories’ Jojo Moyes is a two-time winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year award.
- 9. WHAT IS LOVE? CatherineWybourne said, 'Love is free yet binds us'. Love is more easily experienced than defined. As a theological virtue, by which we love God above all things and our neighbours as ourselves for his sake, it seems remote until we encounter it enfleshed, so to say, in the life of another, in acts of kindness, generosity and self-sacrifice…
- 10. WHAT IS LOVE? CatherineWybourne said, …Love's the one thing that can never hurt anyone, although it may cost dearly. The paradox of love is that it is supremely free yet attaches us with bonds stronger than death. It cannot be bought or sold; there is nothing it cannot face; love is life's greatest blessing.’
- 11. WHAT IS LOVE? Accordingto the Bible, love is caring in action. Love isn't what we feel, but what we do.
- 12. WHAT IS LOVE? DEFINITION, ‘Anemotion, sentiment, or feeling of pleasurable attraction toward, or delight in something, as a principle, or a person, or a thing, which induces a desire for the presence, possession, well being or promotion of its object.’
- 13. WHAT IS LOVE? ORIGINOF LOVE 1 John 4:8 ‘Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.’
- 14. WHAT IS LOVE? DIFFERENTKINDS OF LOVE ‘PHILEO - LOVE’ Romans 12:10 ‘Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.’
- 15. WHAT IS LOVE? DIFFERENTKINDS OF LOVE ‘PHILEO - LOVE’ 1 Thessalonians 4:9 ‘Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.’
- 16. WHAT IS LOVE? DIFFERENTKINDS OF LOVE ‘PHILEO - LOVE’ ‘AGAPE’ Romans 5:8 ‘But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’
- 17. WHAT IS LOVE? DIFFERENTKINDS OF LOVE ‘PHILEO - LOVE’ ‘AGAPE’ 1 John 3:16 ‘This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for one another.’
- 18. WHAT IS LOVE? Atthe Cross we learn that Agape-Love involves a commitment to the welfare of another without any consideration of worthiness in the loved one.
- 19. WHAT IS LOVE? DIFFERENTKINDS OF LOVE ‘PHILEO - LOVE’ ‘AGAPE’ John 3:16 "For God so loved (agape) the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."
- 20. WHAT IS LOVE? ActionsAffect Feelings
- 21. WHAT IS LOVE? Whilemost people believe love leads to giving; the truth is exactly the opposite: Giving leads to love.
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- 23. WHAT IS LOVE? 1Corinthians 13, Patient, kind, truthful, unselfish, trusting, believing, hopeful, and enduring. It is not jealous, boastful, arrogant, rude, selfish, or angry. True love never fails.
- 24. WHAT IS LOVE? Matthew22:37, "YOU SHALL LOVE(AGAPE) THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.“ "YOU SHALL LOVE (AGAPE) YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
- 25. WHAT IS LOVE? LOVEGOD LOVE PEOPLE LOVE LIFE