RE: Can you love on command?
August 30, 2014 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2014 at 2:42 pm by Drich.)
(August 30, 2014 at 2:36 pm)Diablo Wrote:(August 30, 2014 at 2:33 pm)Drich Wrote: What you have failed to account for in the op. Is that for Christ the word love did not exist. Noe was their any one singular all encompassing word to describe all 'love.' No the Greeks had five different words that describe what we would considered different aspects of the word love. 4 are used in the bible
There was
Agape, or the type of love we are to have for God, which btw is the word Jesus was using in the passage you quoted. This for. Of love is based in fear and respect.
Eros, is physical passionate love.
Phillia, this is known as a brotherly love, it is the love experienced in a platonic way between friends.
And storge', this is the love felt from parents to offspring.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love
We are commanded to give God agape. This type of love is something we can indeed provide on demand.
Total garbage. Fear and respect are not love, they're fear and respect.
You do know your arguing with an ancient culture's vocabulary don't you? speaking a second language I would have thought you would know certain aspects of the host language is often lost in translation.
Plus if you do not like my take on agape you can always stick with what wiki says about it that is why I left the link.
