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Extracted from a website: The 4 types of loves.

Philios
Storge
Eros
Agape

If you take Philios..a true and Eternal Friendship, combine it with Storge..a "motherly" type of love that loves for loves sake, and add in Eros..a sexual union of a man & woman as One Body, to a relationship, then, and only then, do you have the ingrediants for a beautiful and lasting relationship. You have in place all three elements of "human" love..you have reached the epitome of what human love can express.

But, even with all Three ingredients in place, the relationship will survive awhile, and then begin to entropy and die. Why? Because all three loves do not need God to hold them in place. There is no Supernatural Glue cementing them in place, so they will begin to dissolve and either dissapate or disappear in totality.

The three loves NEED God to stay alive and well, though they do not "need" God, if that makes any sense.

And, Agape Love is that Supernatural Glue that bonds all three of the human loves together in an Eternal bond that cannot dissolve or be broken.

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When you have in place the elements of a loving and lasting relationship (Philios, Storge, and Eros), and combine, or allow in, Agape, you then have your love Eternally Bonded. And that is what God intended we do when He gave us the concept of Love. He meant for it to be Eternal. He meant for us to be with Him forever, and He meant that man and woman should become one...as He is One.

But, He never intended that man and woman become one...and then seperate. That is absurd. If God intended man and woman to be One...don't you think He also intended that union to be Eternal? I do! And, I believe that without God in the picture, that love is not love at all...it is merely a human emotion that turns to lust and confuses itself, and eventually fails and dies.

It makes perfect sense to me to tap into the Divine plan for Love if you want to experience True Love. And, the only way to do that, is to come to know, LOVE, and Serve your God. When a man and a woman share that common bond of Faith, then, Agape can do it's thing. A couple that prays together...stays together. Pretty simple.

We as humans can never completely know Agape in this life time, for we cannot completely know God in this lifetime. It is impossible. But, God knows us..each one of us...personally. And, He loves us...all of us..unconditionally, perfectly, totally, and undyingly.

The major difference between Agape Love and all the others is this: Agape loves for loves sake. It expects no rewards, it wants nothing in return..except that love be given back to it. And the neat thing is that the more you give back to Agape, the MORE you receive in return. It is an unending well of strength and supply from which to draw, and if a couple can tap into this Well, their love will be an Eternal Love.