The Love God Is and the Love God Gives Four Kinds of Love This is a book on love and its main obstacle—the “original sin,” the “knowledge of good and evil.” We will do well, therefore, to start by defining what we mean by love. This is especially important because contemporary Western people tend to define love in a way that is quite at odds with the way the Bible defines love. Unlike English, which has only one word for love, ancient Greeks had four different words that could be translated “love,”