Love and God are one in the same?

Question

Just a thought....but what if God, the greatest being in the universe, literally is love?

Answer 1

Good wonder!

God is love. And love is God! God dwells on the heart of every person who exudes love. Love is the feeling what God's want to every human person. If there is love within us, there is peace. Essentially when peace reigns there is happiness.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 2

no... not just a thought but in hebrew he is called (ELOHIM) of the

universe the( heavens) ...yes ,he is love and even more he gives us

grace something that we never known nor can we ever understand

we didnt deserve, but yet he gave love beyound our reasoning...

                                                    

                                                                       may you be bless

                                                                                        joh w

Answer 3

Your love is killing me.

'C. Of Love To Men

Love is a matter of feeling, not of will or volition, and I cannot love because I will to do so, still less because I ought (I cannot be necessitated to love); hence there is no such thing as a duty to love. Benevolence, however (amor benevolentiae), as a mode of action, may be subject to a law of duty. Disinterested benevolence is often called (though very improperly) love; even where the happiness of the other is not concerned, but the complete and free surrender of all one’s own ends to the ends of another (even a superhuman) being, love is spoken of as being also our duty. But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law. But what is done from constraint is not done from love. It is a duty to do good to other men according to our power, whether we love them or not, and this duty loses nothing of its weight, although we must make the sad remark that our species, alas! is not such as to be found particularly worthy of love when we know it more closely. Hatred of men, however, is always hateful: even though without any active hostility it consists only in complete aversion from mankind (the solitary misanthropy). For benevolence still remains a duty even towards the man-hater, whom one cannot love, but to whom we can show kindness. To hate vice in men is neither duty nor against duty, but a mere feeling of horror of vice, the will having no influence on the feeling nor the feeling on the will. Beneficence is a duty. He who often practises this, and sees his beneficent purpose succeed, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited. When, therefore, it is said: “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,” this does not mean, “Thou shalt first of all love, and by means of this love (in the next place) do him good”; but: “Do good to thy neighbour, and this beneficence will produce in thee the love of men (as a settled habit of inclination to beneficence).” The love of complacency (amor complacentiae,) would therefore alone be direct. This is a pleasure immediately connected with the idea of the existence of an object, and to have a duty to this, that is, to be necessitated to find pleasure in a thing, is a contradiction.

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Answer 4

Love is among the most important sustaining factors in our lives. After the basics of survival have been met -- water, food, shelter (because the Eagles' song "Love will keep us alive" was not literally true) -- then emotional sustenance in the form of caring for another individual, and being cared for in return, is a very important thing.

God is many things to many people. We created the concept of God. Sadly, all faith and religion by definition ask for blind belief and following, which has meant that "God" has been the biggest cause of wars in history. My God is better than your God. And such.

In its best incarnation, the concept of God can lead to good deeds, dignity, and discipline in society. But that has not been the case.

Is Love the same as God? I think if we define God as the veneration of the unknowable, then Love isn't God. Love is something we can feel, it's an actual state of grace between people. God is a belief to do right in society.

The question is a pedantic musing, and so is my answer. I hope the distinction I speak of is clear from this sentence: I Love my family, and thank God for making all of this possible.  

Answer 5

love is an attribute of God, therefore are one in the same.  Love and God can be interchangeable.   God is Love.  Love is God.  Of course we are not talking carnal love, we are speaking of Divine Love, all spelled with capitals.

Answer 6

Then you would simply be applying a different name to the same feeling.

That's like me saying 'What if love were heaven..."

Answer 7

I would say no, because you can love someone without God, and you can have a God that doesn't love.

But if people though of God in the same way the thought of love, I think there would be a lot less religious warfare in the world.

Answer 8

Love and God are one and the same... ?

You got it dude. Well done !!   :-)

Answer 9

Would this mean God is a Cheeto? I love them each and every one unconditionally. =)  

Answer 10

Well God is supposedly omnipresent and omnibenevolent, which in turn might suggest he'd be love... but if God was omnibenevolent, why so much suffering?

Answer 11

You're probably referring to the New Testament God. The Old Testament God was anything but love. The First Century Christians actually believed that the God of the Old Testament was actually the Devil. Could you turn someone into salt simply because they turned around? Religion never wants to discuss the difference in temperament between the Old & New Testament God.

Answer 12

i agree and anwser to this can be found in the movie  "dinner with a Stranger"

Answer 13

No. All religions have two other characteristics. The creator, and the destroyer.  

Answer 14

God IS Love.

But he is a lot more than that.

He is mercy justice wisdom and power.

And he has something we don't have, and that's the ability to see right through us,right through our moms when we are in the womb,

right through our motives, right through to our hearts and limitations.

Without God there would be NO real love, none.

No light, no us.

Satan is the FIRST rebel and he is STILL allowed to exist from the time of first man till the newest infant.

If you know someones BOTTOM line you can pretty much figure out about the rest of them, why they do what they do, their direction with it and their modi operandi  and work back.

GOD IS LOVE.

It's been pretty much my life's work.

And yes I have come to the conclusion that GOD is not just the epitome of love, intelligence, and power.

HE IS LOVE, INTELLIGENCE and POWER.

He is the starting point, bottom line fascinating topic.

Answer 15

And if God exists in all of us, then loving each other is finding God

Answer 16

Yes, God is everything & everything is love. If a person has something negative happen it only is a negative thing because we judge it to be so but what if we saw God in everything & when something happened in our life we were able to see it all as a gift & God & love. Even when somone dies we cry cause we had love for that person. If we were cold & didn't love we wouldn't cry so it is love. If someone dies & lives on in spirit it isn't such a bad thing. We can take everything in life & see it differently & life starts to look different. So it's all good, it 's all God, see the gift in it.