What happens when we die?
Exploring Love
Love is a choice not a feeling. We choose to do something for others without expecting anything in return. Different types of love: Agape - unconditional, Storage - family, Philia - friendly and Eros - sexual. To love is to be kind, patient, enduring, understand, honest, loyal, caring, affectionate, committed, giving, selfless, and willing to sacrifice. In Christianity the Bible has a lot to say on the subject of love as it is believed love is a reflection of God's character and God's love is the foundation of all love. God so loved the world that he gave his only son so whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. The two most important commandments are to love God with all our heart, soul and mind and love our neighbour as ourself.
1 Corinthians 13 (English Standard Version)
The Way of Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.