The Bible By John Description - 865 Words

Love in the Bible by John description, can be directed from person to person or from a person to things in a blink of an eye. When a strong person or thing is drawn to your liking, this feeling is love this means you enjoy and take pleasure in those things you love. Love towards persons is more complex. The same with things, loving persons may mean simply enjoying them and taking pleasure in their presents, their looks, achievements, etc. But there is another aspect of love that is very important in the Bible. The important aspect of love for persons who are not attractive or poor or productive. In this case, love is not how much good you see in a person, but how deeply attached to your inner feelings to helping your be all they can be.†¦show more content†¦However, those who read deeper into the Bible will find more than just the stereotype that I have already explained. The God of the Bible has many moods. The Bible has stories of murder, warfare, etc. in which the ones do ing the acts are treated as good people that have done heroic deeds. What are we supposed to make of these situations? Can they still have good values and be applied to our daily lives to hopefully improve them? Let us take some examples from the Bible and examine them, while keeping the previous questions in mind. First, I would like to examine a story almost everyone is familiar with. This is the story of the Great Flood. When I think of this story, the first response I have is the thought of â€Å"divine destruction†, or destruction caused by God. As we know, the amount of destruction in the Great Flood was overwhelming. The entire earth was flooded, killing everyone except Noah, his family, and a male and female of every animal. Is this story, God is the character doing the â€Å"killing†. Of course, it is portrayed as a good deed, which is should be. In the long run, it was good for the world. Let’s look at how the Bible describes love, and then we will see a few ways in which God is the essence of love. â€Å"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with