Love, Glove, Dove

AK47 Pleabs,

I don’t argue with you about “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.” In fact, I concur wholeheartedly my Heeby Pleeby friend.

When you started talking about Eros, however, that’s where I began disagreeing. Do you know where the concept of Eros stemmed from? It was a Greek mythological god. The god of love. Plato worked on its definition for sometime, and many philosophers used it later on. . .much like the definition you took from FREUD’S definition of sexual love.

What I’m saying is that these are still human-composed concepts, and if we believe in the same God, and God is Love, then those human-composed concepts are merely shots in the dark as to what human love is.

The Bible says God is Love, so if you claim to know Love, you claim to know God. You don’t know God. You have a glimpse as to what He is, but you don’t fully understand. Thee same goes for love, or unconditional love I should say.

So I guess, yes, we both agree that there is a duality in love, at least from our perspective. . . There is suffering and sadness. But we often see, in hindsight bias, that these are required for love to exist, whether we agree with it or not.

But my issue with Boyd is that he renounces any pain and suffering in this world as being Love or God-related. He says God plays no hand in those instances. And if you want to know why I have such a huge problem with this, read my entry right below this one “Who knows? (Nobody! Nobody!)”

As far as loving your neighbor as you love God, I think we need to constantly be reevaluating ourselves and where we stand. The big question is “How? How do I love?” It’s easy to say “just love.” But people who aren’t even Christians exhibit what seems to be love, so how do as Christians better represent it?

It’s easy to care for your wife, your girlfriend, your family and friends dude. But think about people you can’t stand. Think about people you despise. You are instructed to love them. How on earth do you even do that? I think we caught a piece of a snapshot of what love is in the crucifixion. It sent a message. . . deny yourself for God and for others. Sacrifice yourself. Give up your time, your money, your energy, all of you. And not just for the people close to you. Now how often do we do that? And how often do we even RECOGNIZE it? And yet, we have the audacity and the arrogance to go around preaching about love.

The truth is, like Lewis said below, people would rather not hear about it; they’d rather see it in action. It bothers me beyond all belief when Christians think that non-Christians will someday find a faith if they just hear more Bible verses about love thrown at them. Or if they hear that Jesus loves them. If they don’t believe in Jesus, then this has no relevance.

If you are instructed to be a part of the living body of Christ, your time would be better spent not talking about the love of Christ, aside from the fact that you don’t even know what that means, but rather living it out the best way you know how. This goes for me too.

Grandpa C