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1 | How many times is love in the bible. | Bible general Archive 2 | Barach | 150190 | ||
I'm sure someone will supply you with a number. Interestingly (and important for an understanding of the NT use of "love"), the Greek scripture had four words for love that are simply translated as "love" into English - but carry different meanings. E´ros (a word not found in the Christian Greek Scriptures), which is based on sexual attraction. Stor·ge´, a feeling based on blood relationship. Phi·li´a, warm friendship love based on mutual esteem. A·ga´pe—the love based on principle, which might be said to be synonymous with unselfishness, the love the apostle John referred to when he said: “God is love.”—1 John 4:8. Professor William Barclay in his New Testament Words says: “Agape has to do with the mind: it is not simply an emotion which rises unbidden in our hearts [as may be the case with phi·li´a]; it is a principle by which we deliberately live. Agape has supremely to do with the will. It is a conquest, a victory, and achievement. No one ever naturally loved his enemies. To love one’s enemies is a conquest of all our natural inclinations and emotions. This agape . . . is in fact the power to love the unlovable, to love people whom we do not like.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 contains a fine definition of "agape" [love]. |
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2 | How many times is love in the bible. | Bible general Archive 2 | Searcher56 | 150201 | ||
Scipture ... Luke 11:43 "Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets." The Greek word for love is agape. |
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3 | How many times is love in the bible. | Bible general Archive 2 | Aixen7z4 | 150204 | ||
I like your point, if I understand it. I like it a lot. I am amazed, and sometimes amused, at our love for words, as distinct from ideas, and at our focus on words, for words have no meaning except in context. “How many times is love in the Bible?”, the person asks, and I wonder. Is that person interested in a word count, or do they want to know to what extent the Bible deals with love; love for God, love for one another, how to recognize love or give love, for example. I wonder how many times the word “love” is preceded directly, or followed, by the word “not”. But the idea that we can love the uppermost seats with an agape love is stunning. Let us how it shocks us into looking at words, not myopically, or under a microscope, but in context. |
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4 | How many times is love in the bible. | Bible general Archive 2 | Searcher56 | 150208 | ||
My point is that people most don't see this as agape love. | ||||||