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  1. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Welcome, Sinthesis. Is it unwise to love?
  2. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    I think I'll better be able to answer your question once you define wisdom for me, but I'll take a stab at answering, now: I'd say that I'd be extremely unwise to stand before God possessing wisdom I know but no love I've done. Rather than wise, I'd be a fool, or a coward, to never act on the...
  3. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    I can see how love feels and how love does, but I don't quite see how love understands. Perhaps something Socrates said might help me see what you see:No matter what the subject, there is for those who wish to deliberate well upon it always one and the same starting point: You must know what it...
  4. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Do you think it might help, iLove to define faith and hope? I wonder if the truth might be that if one does not produce the other, one still cannot exist without the other. So rather than one being the mother of the other, one might instead be the wife of the other. Not sure if that is the...
  5. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Or read a little further after the verse you quoted: You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? (Galatians 5:7) If you and I were the Galatians to whom Paul was writing, would love or wisdom give us the answer to his question?
  6. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Yes, but how would I discern whether your opinion is true or not? Would James advise me to use love or wisdom for discernment? If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. (James 1:5)
  7. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    So what does everyone think? Love? Wisdom? Which is greater?
  8. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    A summary for anyone just finding this discussion thread since it was moved: We've rejected a few reasons why love is greater than faith and hope. Two reasons why love is greater we have not found good reasons to reject. The first accepted reason why love is greater is love lasts forever, but...
  9. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    No problem. :)
  10. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Yes, it seems love is the greatest thing we can do, but is love the greatest thing we can think?
  11. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Wisely said, indeed Mike! Glad you contributed to the discussion. Let's take a closer look at the context of passage you cited from Proverbs:<sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, <sup class="versenum">14 </sup>for she is more...
  12. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Welcome to the thoughtful discussion, Maedchen. :) Are you thinking, then that the greatest thing God can do for us is to love us, and so love itself is the greatest thing we can have for him and express to him and others?
  13. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Then is the fact that love (i.e., grace) is an energy God himself gives us reason enough to believe love is greater than faith or hope? For we agree God also gives us the faith to believe and the hope to go on. I think you would agree that God's giving us love does not make love greater than...
  14. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Yes, I agree we should become like God. <sup class="versenum mid-paragraph">1 </sup>Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children <sup class="versenum">2 </sup>and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to...
  15. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Are you saying it is love that discerns how to love?
  16. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    So it seems, Jethro we now know why love is greater than faith and hope, but is it greatest of all?
  17. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Yes, and I think what you said is true. Our love is greater than faith and hope because of these three, only love will last. Well said! :)
  18. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Yes, I think you might be right. God gives us the ability to love. :) Do you think God also gives us the faith to believe, or the encouragement to hope?
  19. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Do you think, then that when you love, it's really God doing the loving?
  20. Spockrates

    Is Love Really the Greatest?

    Yes, I suppose love is greater than faith and hope regarding God, Edward, but isn't Paul talking about not God's love, but our own? And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) The context of the passage seems to imply this: If I...
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