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Our understanding of the love of God has been tragically distorted. The comfortable, sentimentalized version we commonly encounter today is far from the biblical depiction of God’s love. Featuring contributions from well-known evangelical scholars, this multi-disciplinary study presents the biblical view of the love of God from the perspectives of systematic theology, biblical theology,...

this point: “We must start with God himself if we are to learn about the nature of love. We must start above, not below. We must start with who he is and not with our sense as to who he is or what we want.”9 Biblically, the covenant Lord disclosed in the Old Testament (Ex. 34:6–7) and the Father as finally revealed in Christ define love for us. “God is love” means love is a person, a person who is also holy, eternal, all-knowing, unchanging, and self-existing. Love, the abstract concept and unseen
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