A New Kind of Love

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manifestation.” Now with those basic truths set before you, again let me say that this new kind of love, the agapaō love, was brought to the world by Jesus Christ. The thing that people have called “love” has been basically nothing more than sexual attraction, or brotherly love where you scratch my back, I scratch your back. If you do not do right to me, I’m not going to do right to you. But we’ll get along good together in a brotherly fashion because it’ll be profitable for me, it’ll be profitable for you, therefore we just have this kind of love. Both of these, the phileō love and the sexual love of the erōs, are relatively insignificant and never build a certainty within life or within the depth of the soul of a man which is lasting. This thing which we have called love has been basically nothing but sex attraction. You see, this sex attraction which we refer to as love is hardly any