love as God! Thus, we would be worshiping an attribute of personality and not the Person Himself, thereby destroying the concept of personality in God and denying in one sweep all the other attributes of the deity. Don’t forget that it also says, “God is light” (1 John 1:5) and “This is the true God, and eternal life” (5:20), but we don’t try to limit His nature to just light or life! When it says, “God is love,” it means that love is an essential attribute of God’s being. It means that in God is
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