The Four Kinds of Love

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Nowadays, there are many meanings to the word °Love±, and we use the word °Love± to express our emotion. We say °I love my car±, or °I love pizza±, and we may also use the phrase to people such as °I love you.± We can say that we love about anything and everything. In English, we have one word for love; that word is just °love±. We are all easily confused of what love is by watching the movies and dramas or reading romance novels. They all speak of °love±. The more frequently we use the word °love±, the more the true meaning of love is dim. Something is insufficient in the definition of the word °Love±.

In Greek, different words are used to describe different types of love: Phileo, Storge, Eros, and Agape. Phileo is used to describe friendship. Storge is familial love, for example, between parents and child. Eros describes sensual love which is stimulated by our sense. Agape describes pure love that is sacrificial and unconditional. I will attempt to describe the four loves given by the Greek Philosophers.

First, Phileo is a friendship type of love. It has its root in the social need of every human being. We are created to live in society, and we must live with others around us to survive. This love can easily be between more

We have looked at the four kinds of love. We need all of the love. If we have the four kinds of love in our mind, we can also have an effect on the stability of the relationship with our lover and other people. We need Phileo love to live together, Storge love to make a healthy and sweet home, and Eros love to create passion. But, if there is only Phileo, Storge or Eros in love, the love is incomplete and will die. However, Agape cannot die, because God is eternal, and, therefore, His love is eternal as well. We can complete the love only with Agape. All kinds of love must be combined together with Agape.

" 'If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous. It is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick tempered, it does not brood over injury, It does not rejoice over wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. ''' At present, I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; But the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

There is difference between Agape love and the other three loves. Eros, Phileo, and Storge are all °human± love. Agape, however, is God¯s love. Unlike a human love, Agape cannot die because God is eternal. Agape is the deepest and the most essential kind of love. God is our model of °Love±. We as humans can never completely know Agape in our life because we don¯t completely know God. But God knows us personally, and He loves us unconditionally, perfe

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