This pressing loneliness...

[theophilus]

I am the only one home right now. It's very quiet, and a bit lonely. But there is nothing wrong with solitude; it's almost peaceful for once.

I was reading in my interlinear New Testament today, and I found out that the word agape is used in 2nd Timothy 4:10 for Demas' "love of the world," which eventually led to his apostasy. Now agape has

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Eros and Agape

[seraphimsigrist]

Anders Nygren a Swedish theologian did a long
work called eros and agape the basic thrust of
which was to separate Greek philosophy from
Christian thought(the former characterized by
eros...yearning, desire etc) the latter self
giving love.
There is perhaps not nothing to it, or to all
the sermons preached on Greek word studies but
in the end a person is one and his love compounded
of all the forms of love(four I think in greek)
and Plato's love too and his Good I should say
are another way of expressing from a different
perspective and distance from Bethlehem to be
sure that God is Love.
just this thought shared to yours here
+Seraphim.

in a word

[seraphimsigrist]

my sentence in the other got kinda long and
complicated but in a word agreeing
to yours that a simple distinction of
eros=bad, agape=good will not hold.
yours +Seraphim.