God loves us as children and sent the Son so we could have life through Christ!
We can learn to cherish dearly only because of His divine love for us.
1Jn 3:1,4:9,19
The original Bible language has multiple words for ‘love’ but none were created specifically to describe Christianity. The highest form is ‘agape’ (sacrificial love), used to describe a rarer level of devotion to people than the more common ‘phileo’ (brotherly love). Neither comes close to describing the divine love that God feels towards those He sacrificed His Son for! After His resurrection Jesus asked Peter if he felt this sacrificial agape for Him (John 21:15–17, refer to a version with literal definitions or footnotes), but Peter could only understand his lower phileo level of love. From Christ’s example we can learn how to love and live as closely to agape for Him and others as possible.
Trying to describe love in a single letter would be like trying to describe a forest by looking at a single tree. So I will start adding letters to this page later as I develop them.