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To: HiTech RedNeck

Not that any evangelical will listen, but God isn’t “Love”. A Greek equivalent of the word “love” doesn’t exist in Greek, and agape sure as hell isn’t what we mean by love.


11 posted on 02/02/2017 8:10:08 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: achilles2000
The distinction between agape, philia, eros and store had been known and taught for centuries. (See The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis.) Unfortunately, the English word "love" covers all these Greek concepts

There is a saying that "translators always lie." Sometimes it is not possible to show distinctions in the translation. Then it is necessary to show it in the preaching and instruction.

16 posted on 02/03/2017 4:57:35 AM PST by Petrosius
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