Commentary, Featured, John McReynolds - Saturday, September 11, 2010 17:30 - 2 Comments

Basics 16 – The Love of God

BASIC BIBLE DOCTRINE

Understanding God

Lesson Sixteen:  The Love of God 

In today’s modern world Love is probably the most misunderstood of all of God’s attributes because we have such a distorted view of love as it relates to humanity …  The English word “love” has come to cover a wide variety of meanings.  Especially in today’s modern culture love is linked with emotion: “I love music”, “I love my new car”, “I love my wife”,“I love my children”, “I love my friend”, etc.  These are all statements of love that encompass a variety of meanings, and all evoke a variety of emotions.  In less decadent times the concept of love had a stronger component of morality and high personal character prone to doing the right thing, and is less dependent on emotions.  But in today’s post-modern culture love has become so linked with sex and emotions, and so many marriage relationships have become so dependent on emotions or “feelings” of love and sexual attraction, that when “the thrill is gone”—to quote the old song—the couple is ready to head for the divorce court.

 

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