I kinda figured that this would be the case.
So, let me start the discussion;
Love IS that which has made it possible for us to EXIST. For it was THROUGH 'love' that God 'created' mankind in order to 'share it' with. That is a 'beginning' of understanding. For if God had NOT 'created' mankind, (His children), then the 'family' would have been INCOMPLETE. I don't want to get any deeper than this now for MOST would be unable to understand, much less accept, anything that would require 'chewing'.
Everything we have been 'given' in The Word is offered for EXAMPLE. Designed to TEACH us that which we OBVIOUSLY have 'lost the ability to do', WITHOUT instruction. Wasn't MEANT to BE this way but that's what has happened.
Now that we have discerned WHAT love was FOR, let us SEE what it IS.
Love is that which is able to transend 'self' and be directed and offered to OTHERS. The substance of love is simply SHARING.
Once needed through the necessity of the Law, (sacrifice), in order to TEACH those that had 'lost their ability' to learn OTHERWISE, (If Adam and Eve had NOT chosen to be disobedient, and given the necessary TIME, they would surely have learned this WITHOUT Law, (sacrifice). But they were tempted and thus entered into 'self' which is CONTRADICTORY to 'true love'. Love of self is a 'perverted' love when it cannot be 'shared'. For there is NOTHING 'wrong' with loving oneself so long as it doesn't negate the possibility of SHARING this love.
And we have the PERFECT example of the OPPOSITE of 'true love' exemplified in ther 'personification' of Satan. For 'SELF LOVE' is that which 'caused' his FALL. For 'self love' For 'pride' IS 'one' of the manifestations of 'self love'.
What is SO important in love is that in order to DO that which we have been 'designed' TO DO, one MUST be able to come to an 'understanding' of it FIRST. Christ KNOWS this love for it was offered to Him by and returned to the SOURCE: The Father, God. And through a PERFECT understanding, Christ was ABLE to overcome temptation and remain FAITHFUL to His Father when sharing His LOVE with US, (mankind), AND it's DESCRIPTION, (through word and example).
The Law was designed for ONE THING: To be a 'teacher'. How? Through the Law was offered instruction on what HAPPENS when love is offered. (the order in which our hearts were DESIGNED to follow). The sad part of this history is that even those that were given the Law, (the teacher of love), chose to simply offer obedience through FEAR instead of actually obtaining the KNOWLEDE that it was MEANT to transfer.
For we have been TOLD that the sacrifices that were OFFERED to God were of LITTLE pleasure to Him. That a 'continuation' of sacrifice for the Jews, is NO different than a continuation of 'sin in Christ', (those that would continually NEED for Christ to DIE again upon the cross. Those that were UNABLE to resist 'self love' and offer 'true love').
And that is WHY Christ came. To offer ONE sacrifice for ETERNITY. One TRULY HOLY sacrifice, (none other EVER have BEEN), that would be ABLE to bring to the hearts of those that ACCEPT it, TRUE 'circumcision', (new covenant that the first was only a 'semblance' of), Which simply means; that which had come to COVER the heart, (sin, or SELF LOVE), separating it from the LOVE that we are MEANT to offer is 'taken away', (circumcised). A 'removal' of that which had been able to 'conceal' or COVER up 'true love'.
I'll stop here for now. Allow a bit of this to sink in, (hopefully). But it is MUCH 'deeper' than what has been covered here so far. Stay tuned.........
MEC
