True Love, Volume 1

""Love Is indeed 'a many-splendored thing.' This volume usefully sheds light on different aspects that lay readers rarely distinguish. Informed both by personal devotion and scholarship, the author uses hermeneutics better to understand the various terms for love as used in scripture, considering both the Hebrew and the Greek terms used originally. Focusing on the book of 1 John, God's love (agape) is related to our own practical lives in a systematic and commendable exegesis."" --John Gammack, Professor, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University ""This could be my own theology course notes. It is solid and systematic. 'Loving God' is anomalous; widely incomprehensible. Spiritual love, in chesed and agape, is a perfect peak. Other kinds of love fall away. Is this crazy? Those who follow it working out through scripture here may recognize a miracle."" --Peter Duxbury-Smith, architect in AI and machine learning ""Ours is an age rich in information, yet poor in wisdom. Even we followers of Christ, while striving to become data literate, sometimes remain biblically illiterate. In this invaluable book, Dr. Ricky Ohl turns us back to the Bible, focusing forensically on what it says about life's most urgent need and heaven's most profound and transformative gift, love. This book is very good news, from start to finish."" --Mal Fletcher, Chairman, 2030Plus ""This short book should be studied by anyone who has pondered the biblical concept of love. Dr Ohl explores the Greek and Hebrew words usually translated in English as 'love' or 'charity.' He identifies the basis of love as orientation toward the welfare of another/others. He argues that biblical love cannot sustain universalist or Calvinist perspectives on salvation. Biblical love, he argues, is consistent with the free choice associated with Arminianism. Thought-provoking indeed."" --Rod St Hill, IgniteLife Church, Gold Coast, Australia