Tag: Matthew 5:7

Importance of Forgiving

Forgiveness - Purposefully altering one’s attitude toward someone who has offended or otherwise owes us a debtm changing from negative feelings toward them to a desire for them to prosper, Thoughts of God, Thoughtsfogod, David Reese

As believers in Jesus, we have reason to be cautious as we look at Matthew 18:23-35 18:23-35. “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves…. “And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt. But that slave went […]

Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love

it is the Christian conception of fellowship with God that gives the idea of Agape its meaning, mythoughts, thoughts of God, thoughtsofgod, David Reese, Anders Nygren, Nygren, Agape and Eros, Agape, Eros

In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man.  In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature.  In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif.  Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.