Love and God?

Are they related?
Just around the time I recently fell in love, I found God. I started beleiving and going to church, and my beleifs have changed.
My friend have told me its only because my boyfriend is a christian, but I think otherwise.
What do you think?

"God is Love," it says.

(A question we addressed in a philosophy class last semester, though... does that, inversly, mean Love is God? Is it something to worship?)

Anyway.

I think being in Love and believing in God do share similar traits. You have faith in something that you can't see, but can feel. You take a leap, and surrender yourself to something "greater." Also, love allows you to see people as they really are, and appreciate them in all their virtue and vices, which is also what followers of the main religions of the Book are called to do.

I love, but I percieve no god.

Love is as blind as god is all-seeing.

I believe that without God there is no love.
God brings people together for his purpose.

You don't find God, He finds you.
When its time, He'll get You

Love is blind... and God ignores... hmmmmm sorry silly subject... I found love the first time when I believed and the second when I didn't... Don't think God and love have anything to do with each other... God probably doesn't exist and love is hard to find... just my opinion

I dont think they have anything to do with each other. Cause like most scienctist say.. god is something we mad for reasons we cant explain. If we cant explain a happening we blame it on god. So god technically, if those thoughts are true, doesnt exist.
And love is a feeling controlled only by the one it is within. So how can anything else effect how you feel but yourself.... matter of fact, you cant control how you feel either... Most people say "why do I love this person"? and they blame their feelings on god, but if he didnt exist... how do we blame it on him.

In the long wrong they have nothing to do with each other, cause one exists the other doesnt....

i agree with somwhere amongest the peices

that is wonderful that you found God. I have been a christian for my entire life so i think it is cool hearing people's stories about how they came to know christ! Well i think that means that he is a good witness

Who here thinks god really exists?

im not saying i dont believe in him...

I do.

I think it's definate that you can love without believing, but I do not think you can love to your potential without it. My faith and my beliefs make everything that I love in life intensified. However, oftentimes people think it is foolish that I believe in something I cannot see, hear, touch... but I can feel it. The people who say they do not believe in God but understand how they can believe in love contridict themselves, to me. Faith is believing in something beyond yourself. You cannot see love, you cannot touch it, or hear it... but you can feel it. You know it's there. It's the same way for me and my relationship with God.

Once you feel the presence of what I believe to be God, you can never ever love the same way again. The love is magnified so much that it's hard to believe.

So yes, I would say that God and love are related. The world points us to sexy, heated scenes in a romance movie and says "This is love." Faith takes you to a cross where a naked, bloody man hangs and says "No, this is love."

I don't know. First of all, what kind of love are we talking about. that last quote up there ^^^ thats pretty intense. but the "undying, eternal love" God has for us is a wee bit different than the sexual, romantic love between a couple. I think love is definitely subjective and is an invention, like all virtues, of the human mind. It is what you want it to be.

What Bob Shank said. I lost God somewhere in my wardrobe and as most people know that once something is lost in my wardrobe it's gone forever... lol.

I lost God..I lost all hope in God. =l

"let us know where you found him, on the back of a cereal box, in a book, or hanging out at the gas station with elvis"
^^
as a christian i find that very offensive if you are looking for god look in your heart he is there

anyway i belive god wanted you to meet your bf to find him i also am happy to hear you found god

The week I found God was the week I found my first love. I'm not saying that they're connected, but who knows? Maybe God just wants to see us happy.

My opinion,as a Christian, is that it could be related but then again it couldn't. I believe that when you are right with God and in his will and doing what your're supost to then he will show you and lead you to the love of your life. God should be your #1 love and others follow. I would say that honsetly no one knows. But just stay close to God and let him be apart of all disicions made in your relationship. And good luck!

God does to exist! How do you think we got here?

I believe he exists!!!!!

How did God come into existence? Oh right, he always existed. Always is an awfully long time. And how exactly did humans come into existence again..according to you Christian maniacs? Ah yes, Adam and Eve. Made out of clay. Woopie! Damn Eve for eating the apple! She skrewed humanity over for eternity and forever gave females a bad name.

I would've eaten the apple as well.

To be a Christian means you have a personal relationship with God and you have put your trust in him and believe in him. You have asked him to forgive you and save you from your sins. And by becoming a Christian you will have eternal life with him, even after you die. -John 3:16

And if you don't know what John 3:16 says it says
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotin son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life."

We don not find everything offensive but that was a rude remark if you look you will find if you are looking for god you will find him

i agree with u kelsea.
When you feel love...that's God right there. It is those little things the ones you can't see the feelings that make you feel something so amazing at times... that is God right there. Just like atoms and the love a mother develops for her child. Even a leaf detaching from the twig on a tree, the currents in the ocean. All of that is God. Without God's will none of that would happen, it can't. Anything you see of nature, feel, think, live... it's God. It was in human nature to believe a higher being existed.. and as time grew people migrated and developed other things peoples minds change... Love is pure. And if you still have doubts... believe at your own time...

it's a deep thought only very few spiritual ppl may understand. but it's as deep as love.

i think that maybe God brought this person into your life to just be like "hey I'm here, hello, wake up"

I honestly find that very hard to believe that youve read the whole Bible cover to cover 32 times. i dont know what Bible youve been reading but its very hard to read it once let alone 32 times. and no Christians dont use scripture to cover their butts they use it to lift them up lift others up help them witness and many other things!!

Could we get back to the original question? I don't care about the battle between athiests and Chritians.

Love and God. Plausible but not always possible. Some people have experienced things that make you wonder if the two are possible. Others have realized that because of belief in a religion they were able to find true love. Myself, I believe they aren't related.

I dun think they are relates what so every. =)

"And how exactly did humans come into existence again..according to you Christian maniacs? Ah yes, Adam and Eve."

^Hm. Odd, my R.E teacher tells me Christians believe that Adam and Eve is just a story. It is in fact Muslims who believe the story of Adam and Eve was true.

But anyway. Yeah, 'love is God, God is love' :).

Bleh.. time for another Atheist opinion here... heh.... I'm not the type who's ever felt that I've ever been worth anything (not looking for sympathy so don't give any please)... I've always been the bad boy who gets in trouble sometimes.. the real cocky type... swears.. all that good stuff... and I finally found a girl who I fell in love with.. who accepted me for who I was... .. In all honesty I couldn't see how this was happening... how someone could possibly fall in love with me (I don't hate myself I just understand how people can dislike me.. lol)... and for about a year we were happy together... and I started to believe that, because of my personality type, for someone to love me.. there HAD to be a god.. so i began to believe....me.. and Atheist.. and now i had a cross in my room and even thanked him once in a while for my blessing.

And then... heh... she left me for another guy... no reason either.. he was um.. better looking.. and "less obsessive"... .. my thoughts now?.. How the f--- could an oh so powerful compassonate and understanding god possibly do something like that?

I dislike the notion that who *I* personally CHOOSE as a human being to fall in love with is controled by an outside force... be it a god, or anything else in that matter... I want it to be my choice, not anyone elses... and I personally feel sorry for those of you who would let your lives be controled by such a figure.

I am now Atheist again, and I have a girlfriend who I think I might be falling in love with.. and she is... perfect.. but I think I learned my lesson the first time I starting believing in god... and I just think that if I'm just myself and take it only as fast as she's comfortable (which I'm willing to do)... then everything will turn out for the best =).. god or not.. it's my choice to love her, and her choice to love me.

btw.. the girl who left me for another guy was an Atheist with a Muslim father and Christain mother...

"btw.. the girl who left me for another guy was an Atheist with a Muslim father and Christain mother..."

^Interesting.

Just as Jesus is God, Love is Hope. Everything goes hand in hand. It may not make sense, but I have this belief and then some.

Hm...I don't really think so. but then in a way God's related to everything. this is his world and he allows whats in it to be in it. and love is a gift from God. but I don't think they really are related. but um, I heard on a christian radio station one time that there is no marriage or love like that in heaven. it kinda saddened me. but yeah

I think they are completly connected...
because God is Love, to me it makes perfect sense to what you are saying. =)
I'm glad you found christ. Just remember to have faith in God and love.

I agree with the original post. I've always been religious, but when I entered into the relationship I'm in now, with the most wonderful girl in the world, I started to pray more and pay more attention in church. I think it's partly because I have two people to pray for now (she isn't christian), but I think that part of it, too, is that love brings you closer to God. The Bible says that God is three in one, and when you have a partner it's like you've become two in one.

I don't think they're related at all. You find love on your own, nothing really helps you along the way. It's probably just that special someone of yours that helped you find God and change your beliefs, but who knows?

~Loveless Nights~

I don't think they are related.
I do not believe in God.
And I love a lot of things.
Loving something or someone comes from your heart.
Where does your belief of God come from?