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God Is Love 8


God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24)

          God is spirit. He isn’t a physical being, though He can take a physical form. One of the things that this means is that He is not subject to physical laws. He can not be scientifically observed or proved because “science” is obsessed with what can be measured and controlled. In other words, science is obsessed with the material or physical.
          Once again, love is equally spiritual. Some scientists would like to claim that love is nothing but chemical and electrical interactions within the brain. I suspect that’s like saying that when it gets light out, then the sun comes up. The actuality is that it becomes light because the sun comes up. Love is the cause, rather than the effect of the chemical and electrical interactions. Others claim that it is nothing more than the influence of a selfish gene seeking to ensure its replication. Anything more is self-delusion, they say. Of course, none of them, making the profession of having bio-chemical responses to a genetic imperative, is likely to impress a suitable mate. It also doesn’t explain the love response involved in risking one’s life to save a stranger, or a dog or cat from a fire, except to say that the selfish gene is stupid and can’t tell the difference between protecting its replication and protecting just about anything else.
          Because God is a spiritual being, and because love is as well, neither is visible. We cannot see neither God nor love. Instead, we can observe the effect that God and love have in the universe.





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