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God is Love: How do we Define Love? God is Love, but how do we define it? The American Heritage Dictionary defines love as an intense affection for another person based on familial or personal ties. Often this intense affection stems from a sexual attraction for that other person. We love other people, or we say we love other people, when we are attracted to them and when they make us feel good. Notice that a key phrase in the dictionary definition of love is the phrase based on. This phrase implies that we love conditionally; in other words, we love someone because they fulfill a condition that we require before we can love them. How many times have you heard or said, I love you because you are cute; or I love you because you take good care of me; or I love you because you are fun to be with? Our love is not only conditional, it is also mercurial. We love based on feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next. The divorce rate is extremely high in today`s society because husbands and wives supposedly stop loving one another-or they fall out of love. They may go through a rough patch in their marriage, and they no longer feel love for their spouse, so they call it quits. Evidently, their marriage vow of till death do us part means they can part at the death of their love for their spouse rather than at their physical death. Can anyone really comprehend unconditional love? It seems the love that parents have for their children is as close to unconditional love as we can get without the help of God`s love in our lives. We continue to love our children through good times and bad, and we don`t stop loving them if they don`t meet the expectations we may have for them. We make a choice to love our children even when we consider them unlovable; our love doesn`t stop when we don`t feel love for them. This is similar to God`s love for us, but as we shall see, God`s love transcends the human definition of love to a point that is hard for us to comprehend. God is Love: How does God Define Love? The Bible tells us that God is Love ''1 John 4:8''. But how can we even begin to understand that truth? There are many passages in the Bible that give us God`s definition of love. The most well known verse is 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. So one way God defines love is in the act of giving. However, what God gave ''or should we say, who God gave'' was not a mere gift-wrapped present; God sacrificed His only Son so that we, who put our faith in His Son, will not spend eternity separated from Him. This is an amazing love, because we are the ones who choose to be separated from God through our own sin, yet it`s God who mends the separation through His intense personal sacrifice, and all we have to do is accept His gift. Another great verse about God`s love is found in Romans 5:8, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. In this verse and in John 3:16, we find no conditions placed on God`s love for us. God doesn`t say, as soon as you clean up your act, I`ll love you; nor does He say, I`ll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love Me. In fact, in Romans 5:8, we find just the opposite. God wants us to know that His love is unconditional, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us while we were still unlovable sinners. We didn`t have to get clean, and we didn`t have to make any promises to God before we could experience His love. His love for us has always existed, and because of that, He did all the giving and sacrificing long before we were even aware that we needed His love. God is Love: It`s Unconditional God is Love, and His love is very different from human love. God`s love is unconditional, and it`s not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn`t love us because we`re lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son ''who also willingly died for us'' to restore that relationship.

By: Olivia Babirye
Category: Brief Life Summary: Who Was Jesus Christ?

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My Brief Summary of Jesus

Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, to Mary and Joseph. He grew a normal Jewish life as a son of a Carpenter. He started His ministry at the age of 30, and for three and half years taught people about the love of God, the kingdom of God, forgiveness and Judgement. He performed many miracles, and proved His claims that He was the Son of God. Jesus Christ was executed to death on the wooden cross, by the authority of the Roman Emperor, in a trial on charges of Blasphemy against God and the Jewish religious laws. However, on the third day, He rose from the dead, showed himself to be alive, and later went up to heaven, in the public spectacle of his followers. Jesus Christ therefore proved that He was Man and God.

By: Robert Ochen-Chagara
Category: Brief Life Summary: Who Was Jesus Christ?

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jesus is love

Even though we die, love shall not! The only gift that reminds us of Jesus. Though this world passeth away, His love shall not. Though u walk through the sea It will still stay. He loves you more than ever before. Though am off, the spirit will not. -- Mwambu Geoffrey Collins Makerere University Faculty:Technology Department:Electrical Engineering Bsc.Telecommunications Engineering Box 7062 kampala uganda. mob;+256712566197

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By: mwambu collins
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