Except you were asked to provide your definition of God's love in your own words.
Since we don't know how ~you~ understand a specific quote from the Bible, it is imperetive for good discussion for a person making a claim to give the understanding of a specific text in his own words according to his own understanding.
If quoting a text without expounding on that text was all that was necessary, why do we have ministers of the Gospell preach in our churches? They explain the text.
You steadfastly refuse to do that.
We all know that one person's understanding of a specific text is not the same as another's understanding. That is why it is important for you to define God's love in your own words.
Anything else is just a weak cop-out.
Jean
And some try to "explain away" the trext to mean something other than the plain meaning of the words. All one needs to do is look at the plain words of 1 Tim. 2:3,4. Spurgeon and I have no trouble understanding that it means that God desires that all men be saved, but the swarm, in order to maintain their collective theology, must insist that it has a different meaning.