God Is Love!
Rev. Angus Stewart expounds on the biblical affirmation that "God is love" by grounding it in the eternal, triune nature of God and demonstrating how sinful creatures can participate in God's perfect love only through union with Christ. The article emphasizes that God's love is characterized by all divine perfections and that believers share in the blessed communion of the Trinity solely in and through Christ's redemptive work.
Rev. Angus Stewart “God is love”—this is the ringing and heart-warming affirmation of holy Scripture (I John 4:8, 16)! God is love because God is Triune, subsisting in three eternally distinct Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. God did not start to love with the creation of men and angels. He has always loved for He is love in Himself eternally. In the Godhead, the Father and the Son love each other fervently in the Holy Spirit, the divine and personal bond between the first...