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How to apply the Ancient Greeks' eight words for 'love' to your life.
This love term has to do with spirituality, and originates in the seventh or eighth century B.C.E., when it was mostly used by Christian authors to describe the love among brothers of the faith ...
Agape (ἀγάπη, agápē [1]) means "love: esp. unconditional love, charity; the love of God for person and of person for God". [2] Agape is used in ancient texts to denote unconditional love, and it was also used to refer to a love feast. [3] Agape is used by Christians to express the unconditional love of God for His children.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22:37–40) In Judaism, the first "love the L ORD thy God" is part of the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:5), while the second "love thy neighbour as thyself" is a commandment from Leviticus 19:18.
Love of God can mean either love for God or love by God. Love for God (philotheia) is associated with the concepts of worship, and devotions towards God.[1]The Greek term theophilia means the love or favour of God, [2] and theophilos means friend of God, originally in the sense of being loved by God or loved by the gods; [3] [4] but is today sometimes understood in the sense of showing love ...
Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to describe the manifestation of God's presence as perceived by humans according to the Abrahamic religions.. Divine glory is an important motif throughout Christian theology, where God is regarded as the most glorious being in existence, and it is considered that human beings are created in the Image of God and can share or participate ...
Agape is for the kind of love that God the Father has for His creation. It is the kind of love that is not dependent on the object ("the world" in John 3:16). God's love is focused on the subject which is God Himself. God loves us because of who He is NOT because of who or what we are; what we do; how much we give; or how good we are.