God Is Love: A Meditation on the Heart of Reality
A theological meditation on 1 John 4:7-21, exploring the central declaration "God is love" and its implications. Examines love as evidence of knowing God, the incarnation as love's definition, the expulsion of fear by perfect love, and the inseparability of loving God and loving siblings.
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Three words. The most quoted, least understood three words in all of Scripture. ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν. God is love. Not: God is loving. Not: God feels love. Not: God demonstrates love sometimes. God is love. His essence. His nature. His being before creation, before creatures existed to receive that love. The Trinity—Father, Son, Spirit—eternally loving within itself, needing nothing, lacking nothing, overflowing with relational fullness.…
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