Subject: Where are these words coming from? |
Bible Note: Hi Theo-Minor, I believe that agape is a kind of love. It is a love that wills good to a person. Agape is to my mind, loving, goodwill. We might compare 1 John 4:12 with Luke 2:14. 1 John 3:12b, "...if we love one another, (God) abides in us, and His love is perfected in us." Luke 2:14, "Glory to (God) in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased." [NKJ, "And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!] I don't see the "He is pleased" in the Greek. What I see is the goodwill, the thing that has happened in Bethlehem and which the Lord has made known to us. So I would say yet that God is love. He is loving with agape love. And He has made His love known to us. From the heart, Ray |