John says that very clearly in 1 John 4:16. However, today many people want to turn it around and think that love is God. That is not true, especially when we define love the way that most of us do. Love is a feeling, love is something that happens but the translators of the King James Version of the Bible understood love differently when they translated the word "charity". Charity is something you do not something you feel.
So how should we understand that God is love. John 3:16 says it all. We think that God loves us because we are lovable. God loves in spite of the fact that we are unlovable. He didn't fall in love with us, He set His love upon us. How do we know that God loves us? 1 John 4:9 tells us, He sent His son to die for us.
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