I'm putting together a lesson on love and I would like to use Logos 5 (maybe the new Clause search?) to find verses that describe God's love (for example, steadfast, or better than life). Is that possible?
I really enjoyed Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God by D.A. Carson.
He describes five forms/levels:
(1) The peculiar love of the Father for the Son, and of the Son for the Father.
(2) God’s providential love over all that he has made.
(3) God’s salvific stance toward his fallen world.
(4) God’s particular, effective, selecting love toward his elect.
(5) Finally, God’s love is sometimes said to be directed toward his own people in a provisional or conditional way—conditioned, that is, on obedience.
You might consider Grammatical Relationships in a Bible Word Study of each of the Original Language Root Words for Love.
(maybe the new Clause search?)
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I would like to use Logos 5 (maybe the new Clause search?) to find verses that describe God's love (for example, steadfast, or better than life). Is that possible?
Clause Search doesn't track the noun "love" in "better than life" Ps63.3 (63.4 Hebrew bible).
If you haven't already, I would use any topical bibles you may have. A quick look at mine showed several selections of scripture (especially the New Naves):
...Also, a quick perusal of any systematic theologies you have usually have Love of God listed as a communicable attribute or a bullet point within a section on the goodness of God.
Good Luck,
Derek
