Saying we love different things

[cris]

Hello my friends,
sometimes we hear "I love that (food/show/city and the list goes on)".
Do you guys think that is biblical?
I try to avoid saying that I love things, and also try not to love them.
Do you think I overreact? ("do not love the world, or anything in the world")

Thank you very much for your thoughts

Cristian

 

[Berean]

In the sense you're using the word 'love' I think it's being used to mean 'like very, very much' or a lot. McDonald's has a slogan printed on their cups that says, "I'm lovin' it!" or something close to that. It doesn't mean that you literally love their burgers or drinks. Just that you like their greasy, salty food very much. Sorry, not a very deep response to your question.

 

[JennyG]

It is good to consider such things and be careful and scrupulous, definitely -- but "Love" is such an extremely vague and loose word, really, with a hundred different shades of meaning for every hundred different people using it, that we probably shouldn't knock ourselves out in this case trying to guard against wrong applications. It would be almost like trying to make a matter of conscience things over which we have no influence, if that makes sense.

 

[BobVigneault]

If you wanted to express your love Biblically AND verbally then you would have to learn NT Greek or ancient Hebrew. The problem you speak of is more a problem of the way English evolved and not a matter of the heart.

In NT Greek there are four different words that we might translate into love. Your choices are to examine yourself to make sure your love for God is supreme or learn new words for describing your adulation, affection, amity, amour, appreciation, ardency, attachment, cherishing, crush, delight, devotedness, devotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, inclination, infatuation, like, lust, madness, partiality, passion, rapture, regard, relish, respect, soft spot, taste, tenderness, weakness, yearning or zeal for food.

 

[BobVigneault]

Then why don't you eat it?

 

[JBaldwin]

I agree with what's been said. Let me add that while we are told not to love the world or the things in the world. This form of love (mentioned in that verse) seems to me to be more like idolatry than just deeply appreciating what's been put in front of us. I love flowers and trees and blue sky and peoeple, because they came from God. I love to eat good food, too, but it is not idolatry until it becomes more important to me than God.

 

[OPC'n]

Bob posts so few times, but I love each and every one of his deep, well thought-out proverbs!

 

[Berean]

I love this thread.

Then why don't you eat it?

Because it's against my religion.

You guys crack me up. I love it!

 

[Scott1]

Use the word carefully.

When you tell your wife this, it needs to mean something very special.

When you tell your parents this, it needs to be peculiar to them.

When you tell God this, it needs to be from all your heart, all your mind, all your soul.