Number 4

That agape love is FOR God not OF God

Will the real meaning of love please stand up?

lcm hated the copouts so much that he had to find a justification that would allow him to continue to do it. So he invented one. He changed the meaning of the word love, agapao. VPW taught us that agapao was to love with the love of God that we had renewed our minds to, in manifestation. However lcm was so sick of the complaints of the copouts saying that he was so unloving because he would not forgive them, that he had to find something to justify that he did not have to. So he changed the meaning of agape (the noun) and agapao (the verb) to mean the love FOR God not the love OF God. That way he would not have to love God's people, he could act religious and be legalistic and be cold and hard and judgmental and say that he was loving God and that he did not need to love God's people. This was so important to him that he made it a featured doctrine of his new advanced class. Let's look at the Biblical evidence to see what the right meaning is.

The verb agapao, to love occurs at least 125 times in the NT. 110 of those occurrences have a direct object of the verb, which is not God, but someone or something else. Only 13 have the direct object, God or a pronoun referring to Him. Two are intransitive, having no direct object. This does not look good, to base a meaning of a word upon only 10% of its usages.

Now let's test his meaning to see if it fits. Lets look at the first usage in Matthew 5:43-48

5:43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love [have the love for God for] thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
5:44 But I say unto you, Love [have the love for God for] your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
5:46 For if ye love [have the love of God for] them which love [have the love of God for] you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
5:47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more {than others}? do not even the publicans so?
5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

It doesn't fit does it? NO. In fact, even if it did this passage just about debunks his whole justification for hating the copouts in the first place! And on top of that we all know what significance first usages have… What is agapao, love? Look at John 3:16. THAT's the love OF God. Then look at I John 4:20,21. THAT's what we are supposed to do with it! The only way lcm could try to get out of I John 4:20 and 21 would be to change the meaning of "brother", but II Thessalonians 3:15 won't let him do it! A brother is someone else who is born again. It doesn't matter if they are M&A-ed, they're still a BROTHER.

Agapao and agape are NOT the love FOR God. They are the love OF God. God loves us into loving. We love each other with the same kind of love wherewith we are loved. That's the kind of love that heals, the other kind is a curse. The other kind is cold, hard and cruel. If any are still not convinced, look at the fruit…