Love_ God’s Gift and Our Calling
Love: God’s Gift and Our Calling
Episode metadata
- Episode title: Love: God’s Gift and Our Calling
- Show: BibleProject
- Owner / Host: BibleProject Podcast
- Episode publish date: 2025-12-22
- Episode AI description: In this enlightening discussion, the hosts delve into the rich meanings of love in the Hebrew Bible, especially the concept of 'ahavah' that emphasizes faithfulness and care for the vulnerable. They explore how Jesus radicalizes love, including the provocative idea of loving one's enemies. The conversation connects this to the New Testament's 'agape,' a self-giving love that reflects God's essence. They conclude by highlighting how Advent represents God's gift of love through Jesus, urging listeners to embody this generous and practical love.
- Duration: 36:12
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- Export date: 2025-12-27T15:58:18
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🎧 16:07 - 17:38 (01:31)
- When the Jesus movement translated everything into Greek, agape was chosen to describe the purpose of human life.
- Followers of Jesus were so impacted that they adopted the obscure word agape to describe love.
- Tim Mackie explains that the word agape was given new meaning and redefined, not by the Greek language, but by the story of Jesus.
- Jesus reshaped the community's view of reality, causing them to rethink how they treated each other and how they talked about it.
💬 Quote
It's like a word got remade in the image of Jesus.
— Tim Mackie
Tim Mackie on how the word agape was redefined.
📚 Transcript
Tim Mackie: everything mostly into Greek, which had been right in those early years in Jerusalem, the agape was chosen as the main word to describe what Jesus said is the purpose of a human life. When you turn the new testament phileo is used 25 times the verb agapao is used 143 times and the noun agape is used 116 times it's just all of a sudden yeah this is an important word all of a sudden yeah yes
Jon Collins: all right So the followers of Jesus, they're like so impacted that they're like, we need a new way to talk about this. Like we need a new word. Yes. So they adopt this obscure word and they're like, this is going to be our word. Yeah.
Tim Mackie: The word was given meaning now, not by the Greek language. The word was given meaning. was redefined. It's like a word got remade in the image of Jesus. Jesus so reshaped the whole community's view of reality that they had to rethink how they treated each other and how they talked about how they were treating each other. Yeah.
Jon Collins: Oh, interesting.
Tim Mackie: Yeah. It's the story of Jesus, his life and teachings that gave the new definition of the word.
Jon Collins: Hmm. Right. So there's something so radical and revolutionary about the way Jesus taught on love. Yep. is that?
Tim Mackie: Yeah. I'm so glad you asked. This
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🎧 16:07 - 17:38 (01:31)
- When the Jesus movement translated everything into Greek, agape was chosen to describe the purpose of human life.
- Followers of Jesus were so impacted that they adopted the obscure word agape to describe love.
- Tim Mackie explains that the word agape was given new meaning and redefined, not by the Greek language, but by the story of Jesus.
- Jesus reshaped the community's view of reality, causing them to rethink how they treated each other and how they talked about it.
💬 Quote
It's like a word got remade in the image of Jesus.
— Tim Mackie
Tim Mackie on how the word agape was redefined.
📚 Transcript
Tim Mackie: everything mostly into Greek, which had been right in those early years in Jerusalem, the agape was chosen as the main word to describe what Jesus said is the purpose of a human life. When you turn the new testament phileo is used 25 times the verb agapao is used 143 times and the noun agape is used 116 times it's just all of a sudden yeah this is an important word all of a sudden yeah yes
Jon Collins: all right So the followers of Jesus, they're like so impacted that they're like, we need a new way to talk about this. Like we need a new word. Yes. So they adopt this obscure word and they're like, this is going to be our word. Yeah.
Tim Mackie: The word was given meaning now, not by the Greek language. The word was given meaning. was redefined. It's like a word got remade in the image of Jesus. Jesus so reshaped the whole community's view of reality that they had to rethink how they treated each other and how they talked about how they were treating each other. Yeah.
Jon Collins: Oh, interesting.
Tim Mackie: Yeah. It's the story of Jesus, his life and teachings that gave the new definition of the word.
Jon Collins: Hmm. Right. So there's something so radical and revolutionary about the way Jesus taught on love. What is that?
Tim Mackie: Yeah. I'm so glad you asked. This
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