Tag: Mercy

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Thoughts of God, Love Mercy – Do Justice – Walk Humbly with God – Love God with all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength – Regard the well being of others as you regard your own well being, mythougths, thoughts of God, thoughtsofgod, thoughtsofgod.com – “8 He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?” In the past, in the present, in the future God requires actions of love to God and to Others, thoughtsofgod.com, David Reese

Love of God and Love of your neighbor form the crux of the covenant God made with Israel through Moses, as well as the church, τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, those called out of the world, into the kingdom of God.

Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love

it is the Christian conception of fellowship with God that gives the idea of Agape its meaning, mythoughts, thoughts of God, thoughtsofgod, David Reese, Anders Nygren, Nygren, Agape and Eros, Agape, Eros

In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man.  In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature.  In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif.  Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.