What Do We Know About God’s Love?

   In America 2020, “love” is just a feeling.  Hollywood romanticizes it as profoundly sentimental, yet remarkably fleeting, while utilizing it as justification for immoral conclusions in its storylines.  A hedonistic music industry fills America’s air waves with dark “love” songs that employ a bizarre combination of secular humanism with sexual desire, encouraging superficial messages of personal fulfillment and self-worth for adolescents.  

   An increasingly liberalized, cultural revolution in the United States has established a movement in which “love” means all-inclusive tolerance, producing an atmosphere in which it is weaponized against any person who does not wholly comply with the established social agenda of the LGBTQ community, by labeling opponents as “hate-filled.”  What “love” is this?  It is certainly not biblical, for love covers a multitude of sins; it does not justify them. (2 Corinthians 13:6).

   The popular Greek translation for “love” in the New Testament is “agape” which is frequently interpreted to mean “unconditional,” or equivalent to a parent’s inherent love for their child.  This gives people the fundamental comfort that no matter what they do, they will always be within God’s good graces, a notion that helps clarify American culture’s attrac ...

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