What is true, biblical love?

Calvin Beisner explains in this video that Scripture defines what love is in Romans 13:10, that love is the fulfillment of the law. The degree that a person loves another is the degree that they are fulfilling God's law in relation to that person.

Accordingly, individuals in a homosexual marriage are not experiencing true, biblical love because they are violating God's law. Love is not a feeling, it is obeying God's law in relation to another person.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV) - "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."



And the question, how can you hate someone just because he loves another person of the same sex, actually presupposes the points in debate. What is love after all? I mean the Bible actually defines love in Romans 13-10. It says that Love is the fulfillment of the law. And so the degree to which I love someone is the degree to which I am fulfilling God's law in relation to that person.

So the homosexual lover who says that he loves his homosexual companion is actually not loving that person at all because he is violating God's law toward that person. Love is not a feeling. Love is obedience to God's law in relation to another person. Now, feelings will come as a result of that because often Obeying God's law in relation to another person is a difficult thing. It can have some real challenges in it.

But the Lord Jesus said, where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. If you invest the treasure of your concentrated efforts to fulfill God's law toward another person, you will find that your heart goes out to that person. You will have the warm feelings that people mistake for love, but that are actually the reward of real love. Thank you.