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  Date / Time: 7/19/2009 7:05 PM UTC

  Love is Fulfilling the Law
  

  "Love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active..."

  1 John 3:18

  Love:

  Motivates, communicates, relates, dedicates, participates, cultivates, administrates, demonstrates.

  Love does not:

  Intimidate, separate, exaggerate, suffocate, dominate, or fly off the handle

  People instruct from what they know and from what they have inside.

  What do you think?

  To obtain Agape? [AGAPE - freely giving, unconditional, un-selfcentered love].

  You cannot OBTAIN this love by yourself, since this love can only be given. For this love is always moving and is only Agape if it is being freely passed to another person. BUT to experiance this love, here are a few suggestions...

  1. Desire to Love (Agape) in this way.

  2. Work on not being Egocentric

  3. Start looking out for what's in the best interest of friends & enemies alike. Placing their needs above your own. Giving value to others' lives even above your own life. What is so amazing about this type of love is that as you are loving an enemy this way, they can (not always, expecially at first) become your friend. In his Book "A Good Heart" when his Holiness the Buddhist Dalai Lama was presented with this concept of loving your enemies, he stated that if you don't practice compassion toward your enemy then on whom can you practice it, and then implied that animals cannot love this way...

  4. Keep loving everyone this way even if they are mean to you and hurt you even to the point of death. (In other words, pratice loving in this fashion at all times; though rain, snow, and dark of night.) As Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." So to have this love, you must make it a part of yourself, make it a habit to always look out for everyone else's (Friend & Foe's) best interest...

  5. Accept the Source of this AGAPE Love into your heart and God (the source of Agape) will start pouring this love through you out to others...

  Welcome to the ROOT philosophy of Christianity, GOD is the source of this selfless love, AGAPE...

  1 John 4:16b - God is love (agape), and the one abiding in love abides in God, and God in him.

  Ndmonger 19:25, 31 March 2006

  
  Reference:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Agape#Agape_vs._Eros
  
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  “phileo” is a friendship kind of love, taking interest in someone, to treat affectionately or kindly or to have the same interest with another person. It also can involve fondness (or to be fond of doing), it is non-sexual in meaning.
  
  In the time before Christ return, the Bible says they will be difficult times, and the following verses are part of those difficult times:
  v. 10 - And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
  v. 11 - And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
  Now notice verse 12:
  v. 12 - And because iniquity shall abound (increase/multiply), the love (“phileo” - fond of, affection toward or friendship type of love) of many (i.e. most, majority) shall wax (grow) cold. - Matthew 24:10-12
  
  Is this not a sign of our times, iniquity/lawlessness abounds today, and the out come is that “phileo” love by the vast majority is grown cold.
  
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