In this post I am sharing an article from the BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY. The article is titled: What “God Is Love” Actually Means. This was published in the Epistles section of the Fall 2020 Issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, and it is by Ben Witherington III. The following excerpt is taken from it.
The problem, of course, for most people in English-speaking
countries is that they associate the word “love” with particular kinds of human
feelings, but in the Greek New Testament physical or tangible human love is
referred to by the term eros, from which we quite appropriately get the word
“erotic,” not by several of the other Greek words for love. English,
unfortunately, doesn’t have the versality of Greek when it comes to having
different words for different kinds of love.
Read the
full article at the link below. Hope you enjoy.
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