When the world speaks of love they talk about emotions associated with attraction, whether appearances or common interests.
When God speaks about love He is guiding us according to His salvation, good sense and reasonable rational thinking according to His Word.
Psychology has twisted many principles of life because it comes from the teachings of Darwin and not the Bible. Darwin was raised in a Christian environment but in his rebellion against God he set out to disprove the Word of God by reading the writings of evolutionists. He was not the first person to bring this idea to the public, he was just born in a time when the culture was ready to receive it, at least in part.
Darwin taught that people were nothing more than animals who did everything according to instinct. That there is no right and wrong. He erroneously taught that good stimuli would cause an animal to be good and bad stimuli would cause an animal to be mean. This left the blame for bad behavior on the person who caused the angry reaction instead of on the person who caused the problem and reacted in rage.
This may work for animals but people do not operate this way. People are specially made by God with reasoning and the ability to learn and choose right from wrong. Animals are not like this, they are driven by instinct to protect themselves or to love those who provide something for them. We love them but they are users after all.
When human beings act like animals following their feelings entirely without rational thinking they destroy relationships and build within themselves concrete barriers to empathy, kindness, and selfless love toward others.
Our modern Christian culture has taken on more of the world and the ideas of Darwinism than they adhere to the principles of Christ. Many are in the church gatherings but have never known Christ.
Because of the distorted idea of worldly love, problems cannot be resolved and impatience and hypersensitivity to criticism, which would be of help, runs high and is supported by almost everyone around the one who refuses correction.
Since "correction and rebuke" are the new hate speech few people can improve in their character and important relationship problems cannot be resolved. If you don't believe me take a look at the divorce rate and the disrespect of young people and even married people toward their aging parents.
Many people if not most, are experiencing levels of disrespect that are beyond anything in past generations. Here is what we are seeing as described by God in His Word:
2 Timothy 4:3-4 "3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Difficult Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult (RAGINGLY INSANE) times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."
1 Timothy 4:1
"Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,"
Jude 1:17-19 "17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.”
19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit."
