Love and Agape

Love is a hard thing. I take that back, love is painful and extremely difficult thing. No matter how hard we try, we can never truly love someone perfectly. When i say perfectly, i mean, we make mistakes and therefore, are not perfect. We can never truly love someone by our own, because we do not have the ability to love in a meaningful way all the time; in fact, when taken as a whole, (i mean the world) we tend to fall drastically short of any level in which we could say we are close to being perfect. Yet we see kindness around us, in people. Sometimes it is hard to imagine that some will purposely take a portion out of their day to simply help someone out, give to others or simply say sorry or forgive another. If we are simply born out of a cosmic accident, if we were simply an evolutionary random mutation, how do we account for the fact that some of us (i am speaking of the entire human race), are so selfless in their love for others? Is it not odd to see a species which will sacrifice their meaningless life for another person? I will grant you that there are some animals which do special things, such as when a dog will rescue a person in a fatal situation. This i believe is the exception and not the rule but regardless, if anything, it isn't a choice which is made but simply instinct. The dog has been either trained or it is simply getting its owner out of a perilous situation. Yet taken this a step further, why do we make music and what purpose does music serve in evolution? 

I love music. It brings a joy into my day which is simply beyond my understanding. When i listen to music, i hear the cadence of each song and feel as if i could do anything. As it so happens, those who subscribe to materialistic evolution for the explanation for everything still are baffled by music and they cannot conceive of how music contributes to their worldview. They do not understand how single celled protoplasm's can evolve and become Beethoven or Bach. Do we simply die and then the earth absorbs and transforms our body into itself--perhaps even becoming a tree?  ....Before i go further, i have to point out one of my favorite comedians Dane Cook--who was having a conversation with a stranger and the guy (who was atheist) told him that he when he died, he would become fertilizer for the earth and become a huge beautiful tree--So Dane Cook goes on to say that he hopes he does become a tree. He concludes his story by mentioning how it would be great if a big hefty guy came out and took an axe to that tree, drug him through the woods, threw him into a sawmill and then pounded him down into paper and finally printed the Bible on him.

It is easy to believe in something which does not hold someone accountable for in their life. It is easy to look at the world and see the horrible nature within and then fall into our own little selfish habits to try to intoxicate ourselves into a stupor which may bring us a temporary feeling of good cheer. It is easy to look at a certain area of our life and then see the truth and finally come to change our ways for only a little while. It is even easy to live a life which says you love someone and yet do not replicate that love through thoughts or actions. As C.S. Lewis once said in his book The Four Loves, Agape is the kind of love to replicate, for it is the true love or the perfect love. There are four words in the Greek language which signify a type of love. 
Storgê (natural affection)
Philia (friendship, love)
Eros (attraction, sexual love)
Agape (love, charity).

“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, it is more blessed to give than to receive” Acts 20:35.

Agape, is the love of God. It can do no wrong to another, because God is just and he has given us the greatest gift of love in his son Jesus Christ.

“To live is to suffer” – Fyodor dostoevsky

Why do we suffer? God paints a perfect portrait of how we were created in his image; we freely disobeyed him and ate from the tree of Good and Evil. We thought ourselves to be God but we were merely his creation. When I state, “we” it literally means we. Because in all of us, is that same root sin, which was in the first couple, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were a perfect representation of us and therefore when they sinned, we all fell. It is understood that no matter if we were there in that garden, we would have made the same choice, if we had their same knowledge and no prior knowledge as we do now. Therefore we recipients of our own doing and we must freely make the choice to “take the road less traveled” (Robert Frost) or become what we “say” that we hate.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” Holden.

We all fight a battle between our sin and God who is trying to speak to us through our struggles. He cannot get through, when we constantly deny him and partake ourselves to temporary pleasures of this world. We must willingly give up our own lives and live for Him. It is the only way we can truly find what Aristotle called Eudemonia (true happiness) and therein an Agape type of love. 

“O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.” Psalm 8:1