(August 30, 2018 at 1:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 30, 2018 at 1:06 pm)polymath257 Wrote: I also said that I don't understand the question well enough to give an answer. I asked for clarification and didn't get it. In what way does it make sense to say that a deity 'is love'?
In simple terms, it means love only exists because God exists. Being loving is inherent to God's very nature and core. And so the only reason love exists in the first place is because God exists and so it is through Him/because of Him that love exists at all. It also means there is nothing about God that is unloving. He is pure good.
I know you don't believe that, but that is why it is a hypothetical.
(August 30, 2018 at 1:11 pm)polymath257 Wrote: I don't know. Is God 'truth' as well as being 'love'? is there a difference (I think there is)?
Yes, He is truth.
Well, then, I would accept truth.