Philosopher Peter Kreeft considers what love really is (and what it’s really not) showing why what many people commonly think of as love falls short of the shining reality of this great gift of God to human beings.
NO SUBJECT IS MORE IMPORTANT, IN any day. And no subject is more misunderstood, in our day. Most mature people, if asked to choose just one word for the meaning of life, life’s greatest value, the most important gift one can give or receive, the thing that makes us the happiest, the thing that makes one a saint, the supreme wisdom, and even the eternal inner life of God, would say that it is “love.” And they are right.
Without qualification, without any ifs, ands, or buts, God’s Word tells us, straight as a left jab, that “love is the greatest thing there is” (1 Cor 13: 13).
Scripture also tells us that “God IS love.” It never says God is justice or beauty or righteousness, though He is just and beautiful and righteous. But “God is love,” (1 John 1:8), not just loving or a lover, though He is that too. (That’s why He is a Trinity: He is Love; Beloved, and Loving, complete love in three Persons. Love is God’s essence, His whole being. Everything in Him is love.)
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