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1262: 624: 960: 1138:. The highest spiritual attainment in Islam is related to the love of God. "Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides God, as equal (with God): They love them as they should love God. But those of Faith are overflowing in their love for God." (Quran 2:165). Another Islamic concept is that God's love leads towards good deeds "And feed with food the needy, the orphan and the prisoner, for love of Him (i.e. God)." 938:, a lover of wisdom. Thus in the classic sense and reference of 'philosophy', actual knowledge is reserved to God; finite man can only be the lover of knowledge, not himself the one who possesses knowledge. In the meaning of the passage, the lover of the knowledge that belongs only to the knowing God, the 792:
part of the prelude to the 10 commandments (those loving God being blessed to a thousands generations, where many of the worst curses in the Old Testament where curses went to 4 or 10 generations). Jonathan Edwards said his chief obligation was to raise the affections of his congregation as high as
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is a Sanskrit term meaning "loving devotion to the supreme God". A person who practices bhakti is called a bhakta. Hindu writers, theologians, and philosophers have distinguished nine forms of bhakti, which can be found in the Bhagavata Purana and works by Tulsidas. The philosophical work Narada
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of the love of God in the Old Testament has presented problems for modern scholars. The love of God appears in a number of texts (e.g. Hosea 1–3, and then in Ezek 16 and Isa 62) but resolving the references to produce a consistent interpretation has been challenging and subject to debate.
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Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 'The Difficult Doctrine of Love, says both the love of God and the wrath of God are ratcheted up in the New Testament over the Old. Also the concluding verses of several epistles emphasis love
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uses a rich vocabulary to express the love of God, as a concept that appears in many instances. The Lord expresses his love through the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah and says, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving kindness"
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Rumi's Quatrain no. 768, translated by Gamard & Farhadi. Versions of this quatrain have been made by Shahram Shiva, "Hush: Don't Tell God", p. 17 and by Azima Kolin (based on Mafi), "Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved", p. 71.
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means friend of God, originally in the sense of being loved by God or loved by the gods; but is today sometimes understood in the sense of showing love for God.
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in the plural form, speaks of certain people as φιλήδονοι μᾶλλον ἢ φιλόθεοι (lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God). The word
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was and is used as a proper name, but does not appear as an adjective or common noun in Greek, which uses instead the form
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describe the characteristics of the true thinker. When Phaedrus asks what one should call such a man, Socrates, following
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Dance of divine love: The Rasa Lila of Krishna from the Bhagavata Purana, India's classic sacred love story
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he could toward God in volume 4 of the Yale edition of his works, entitled “The Great Awakening.”
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is applied both to the love that human beings have for God and to the love that God has for them.
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their use is related in the experience of the believer, without asserting their equality. In
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Many of the most stunning promises in the Bible are for those who love God, notably
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expresses the sentiment of love of God alongside the opposite sentiment of
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Three Bhakti Voices. Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Time and Ours
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Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement
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worship him in different emotional, transcendental raptures, known as
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Theology of the Old Testament, Volume One by Walther Eichrodt 1961
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In the realm of love, there is neither belief, nor unbelief." (
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For specifically Christian conceptions of the Love of God, see
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Jewish views on love § Love between God and human beings
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is revealed in the abode of queens and kingdom of Krishna in
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Bhakti Sutras, written by an unknown author (presumed to be
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Preaching the Gospel of John: proclaiming the living Word
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Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman (October 2009).
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Rumi's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi Book One
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Index

Divine love
Love of God (Christianity)
Love of Christ
Theism
Agnosticism
Apatheism
Atheism
Classical theism
Deism
Henotheism
Ietsism
Ignosticism
Monotheism
Monism
Dualism
Monolatry
Kathenotheism
Omnism
Pandeism
Panentheism
Pantheism
Polytheism
Transtheism
Brahman
Creator
Demiurge
Deus
Father
Form of the Good
God

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