love
what is love?
posted by Eric @ 9.3.05
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aim-inhibited sexual desires?
the movement of the soul towards some good?
the state of valuing something higher than onesself?
Baby, don't hurt me...
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On a more serious note, it is an important question since we are supposed to love God and love our neighbour as ourselves.
"And this is love, that we should keep his commandments." - 2 John
"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." - Jesus, from John's gospel.
I think that John expresses love in some of its simplest (and therefore best) beauty.
Do you think descriptions allow you to get to the inner motivations behind loving actinos?
That question doesn't make sense. If you interpret those quotes as me thinking "this is what John thinks love Is" then you're missing my point. My point was to get you to read John.
St. John's writings communicate love's spirit, not through direct explication, but by showing you love in everything, from his writing style on up. I think every aspect of John's writings communicate love more clearly than most any other biblical writing (besides Song of Solomon, but that seems to be a different variety of love from the very different communication), and so you should read those works again.
If love is an inner condition, it will be communicated by outer signs, and John's gospel reads easily like a piece of sacramental literature.
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