What is love exactly? wrote:
what is christianity exaclty? wrote:and this one? Love? really? that's not really a behavior.
John 13:35New International Version (NIV)
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Not a behavior? OK, then what is love?
well...compare that to jewish and islamic behavior. food, prayer times, who you can marry, who you should kill, what body parts have to go...compared to that kind of specificity, 'love' as a verb just isn't much to go on.
Which is probably one reason for its success in the West - we prize individualism, and aren't real keen on food restrictions and proscribed killing.