Central to God’s character is that he loves. 1 John 4:8 famously says that “he that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love.” However, when we say that God loves, we are not saying that anything called love is a godly thing. What we mean—because it is what the Bible communicates—is that God is the one who defines what love is.

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The world is full of conflict. There is always a negative comment to respond to or an unpleasant situation to confront. But while...