It is interesting how important words are. I was reading. The content I was receiving was about the important of using words to distinguish between God’s way of doing a certain action and the world’s way of doing the same action. In particular the book was talking about love. It argued that the most appropriate word for passionate love when talking about righteous love is charity. He quoted the phrase “God is love” by saying “God is Charity”.
I am not entirely sure about his full argument but I find this example to be intriguing. It seems to me that there are so many experiences assigned to the word love that it can often be misunderstood and deluded. I don’t feel it necessary to provide examples of this, it seems very evident. Perhaps a different word would help people see the difference between love that is not distorted and soiled and love that is, or love that is shallow and love that is deep.
On the other hand it would require a consensus on the meaning of the word for example, charity. This would have to exist before substituting the word charity for love would be successful at making clear what kind of love is meant when it is stated that God is love.
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