God Defines And Differentiates 26 Agape And 5384 Philos

Greek feminine noun 26 agape is God’s unconditional love as opposed to God’s conditional friendship that is predicated upon John 15:14 in the context of John 15:12-17 “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you” “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you” “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you”. “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you”. “These things I command you, that ye love one another”. In order to maintain my personal relationship with God I no longer interact with any of the world’s 4,351 world religions but I recall being taught as a child by infinitely fallible flesh human beings that I had to accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior or I would go to hell but Jesus personally debunked that false teaching when he said “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you”. God has never told me anything that was not true. A simple but clear and concise test of any religion is to compare the religion’s action  to Jesus’ directive to his disciples in Matthew 6:6 “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly”.