He became known as Cupid in Roman mythology and is depicted as a child carrying a bow and arrow. Hence, the cute little cherub we often see on Valentine's Day cards. But Eros in terms of love was only one kind of love; the Greeks had four words to describe love. Eros romantic love , Phileo friendship , Storge family loyalty and Agape unconditional love.
Eros : the word often used to express sexual love or the feelings of arousal that are shared between people who are physically attracted to one another. Storge : refers to natural, familial love. Storge a word not found in the Bible refers to the type of love shown by a parent for a child. Philia : refers to brotherly love and is most often exhibited in a close friendship.
Agape : defined as a self-sacrificing love. It is the love that focuses on the will, not the emotions, experiences, or libido. It is the love God shows his people in sending his Son, Jesus, to die for our sins. Even in today's culture, love has many different meanings and is a flexible term in our language. He loves us so deeply I don't think we'll ever comprehend it in our lifetime. When this strong love is mentioned in the Bible, it is often the Greek word Eros!
Eros is used in the Old Testament to express the physical and sensual intimacy between a husband and a wife. Because God deliberately uses the relationship of marriage as an illustration of the relationship he has with his people, the Bible, his love letter, illustrates this love with its varying intensity and the beauty of the relationship that exists between God and those who believe in him. Within the boundary of marriage, Eros love is to be celebrated.
One example of this beautiful imagery is found in the Song of Solomon. Because God deliberately uses the relationship of marriage as an illustration of the relationship he has with his people, this book illustrates this love with its varying intensity and the beauty of the relationship that exists between God and those who believe in him. Oh, that the king would bring me to his chambers. The book illustrates that men and women are created physically, spiritually, and emotionally to live in love.
The love between a husband and a wife should be, among other things, an erotic love. However, a marriage based solely on erotic love will fail.
The thrill of sexual love tempers and wanes. Healthy marriages will have what God intended: a mix of Eros, Agape, and Philia. Heather Riggleman is an award-winning journalist and a regular contributor for Crosswalk. She calls Nebraska home with her three kids and a husband of 22 years. She believes Jazzercise, Jesus, and tacos can fix anything and not necessarily in that order!
You can find her at www. Share this. The words are used to convey illicit lovers. LXE Jeremiah Go up to Libanus, and cry; and utter thy voice to Basan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all thy lovers are destroyed. LXE Jeremiah The wind shall tend all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into captivity; for then shalt thou be ashamed and disgraced because of all thy lovers. I called my lovers , but they deceived me: my priests and my elders failed in the city; for they sought meat that they might restore their souls, and found it not.
LXE Ezekiel She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers , yea, thou didst load them with rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication. LXE Ezekiel Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast poured forth thy money, therefore thy shame shall be discovered in thy harlotry with thy lovers , and with regard to all the imaginations of thine iniquities, and for the blood of thy children which thou hast given to them.
LXE Ezekiel Therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast consorted, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou didst hate; and I will gather them against thee round about, and will expose thy wickedness to them, and they shall see all thy shame.
LXE Ezekiel And Oola went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers , on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,. These women use language to indicate physical activity with Jesus is part of our normal relationship with Him. These women have taken the concept of love and twisted it. They have stretched the metaphorical biblical language in the Bible of Bride church and Groom Jesus into realms where the actual marital bedroom benefits with an actual husband on earth are also part of our heavenly relationship with Jesus.
Firstly, Christ relates to the church as a collective unit. He is married to the community as a whole and not to billions of individuals who claim to serve him—he is not a polygamist.
Those who view themselves as children of God are not called to exercise eros but agape; they are not invited to brief episodes of self gratifying sexual intimacy but to a lifetime of social and spiritual interaction. The word eros is the kind of love to Jesus and from Jesus these female teachers write about. The word eros is not in the Bible. Not once. This erotic kind of love between a woman and her husband is fine and biblical. Yet even when Paul alludes to marital bedroom activity however, he never uses the word eros.
Ladies, when you hear a Bible teacher saying we love Jesus like a boyfriend, we are being enfolded in His arms, and worse things relating to our body, you know this woman is not teaching rightly. So where would she be getting this aspect of love from? Her flesh. False teachers always appeal to the flesh. But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
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