The concept that God is essentially love, in addition to all of His other characteristics, is resolving in my thoughts to a more meaningful place of understanding. His actual nature in eternity is that of love. A dyadic relationship of love is like a developing glimpse of God’s infinite capacity for love. One is very lucky indeed to be brought together with someone personally and intellectually. It is I believe, grace.
I signed up for a brief Christian message each morning from the Billy Graham association. Today it was about love growing in the Christian community. Although I am sure love as a topic is easier to know if one is in love with someone, love may increase in a society too perhaps (though original sin is a mass governor and delimiter) from social congregations of love.
“Love one another, as I have loved you.”
—John 15:12
Baruch de Espinoza – a Jewish Portuguese philosopher, thought of God in essentially a pantheistic framework- a logical inference yet incorrect in subtle ways, as everything that exists is contingent being, comparable to the Buddhist’s concept of maya.
Spinoza sought to love God through understanding- amor dei intellectualis, and indeed to know God is to love God. Yet one cannot rely on one’s own understanding. Faith is required for, agape love is from and of the Creator- not from oneself. The human condition and understanding remains human and apparently incapable of comprehending fully the nature of love God has, much less omniscience.
Instead, if the Trinity is pure spirit, anything that is created by it is assigned relative values of being and reality. It is as actual as God intends it; inclusive of us.
It is difficult to know all or even most of what God intends, besides what is revealed in Scripture. We may know that He is love of a kind and depth that can’t be understood in the fallen, human condition.
https://suno.com/s/2uVZoxQaa9SqAZF1
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Free spirit is
an essence of the wind
time is a shadow’s net
through which the soul passes
Striking new chords
a pointillist harmony in motion
an essence of the wind
isn’t spirit free?
For God so loved the world
is one’s spirit ever free?
Jesus is His only begotten Son
matter is matter just to be
The Spirit is the comforter
a divine peace, love
to in-dwell the soul
as frequencies assembled seem.
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