Love - The Simplicity ofChristianity
Christianity is a relationship with God that is love centered.Love is not an emotion. Love is an essential aspect of God’s nature. 1 John 4:8; He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. When we say we love someone, we are saying that we are concerned for their wellbeing.Christianity is a relationship between God and man whereby man reflects the image and likeness of God. Man is defined according to Genesis 5:1-2; This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. The aspects of God’s person that man was created to reflect, or are an image of, are God’s authority, God’s power, and God’s love. 1 John 4:8, He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.Love therefore is not an emotion.Love is an intrinsic aspect of God’s person. You cannot have God and not love, and you cannot love without God. 1 John 4:20, If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 1 Peter 5:7; Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Love is caring for the wellbeing of the object. Romans 13:10, Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
The Godhead is the totality of God’s person. The Godhead is defined in 1 John_5:7; For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. Each member of the Godhead is involved in edifying itself in love. The Father tells us the Godhead loves creation, John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The Word, Jesus, demonstrates love,John_15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.The Holy Ghost empowers man to experience love. Romans_5:5; And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
The Godhead is the totality of God’s person. The Godhead is defined in 1 John_5:7; For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. Each member of the Godhead is involved in edifying itself in love. The Father tells us the Godhead loves creation, John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The Word, Jesus, demonstrates love,John_15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.The Holy Ghost empowers man to experience love. Romans_5:5; And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
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