We as humans often ask what the meaning is to our existence. With life throwing everything it can at us, people often find themselves asking many existential question. One being what is love? Everybody seems to what to know what love is. One of the top searches on the internet is, what is love? Before the internet, songs were a way of expressing why we need love. We can break it down into four categories to help understand the different perspectives on love. These are religion, science, philosophy and psychology. Society, more than ever before – is telling us that happiness is found in possessions and pleasure. So for many people, when they look for love they tend to look for it in possessions and pleasure rather than from within themselves.
RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVE:
The word love means different things to different people. This makes it difficult to understand what love really means. About 84% of the world’s population is a part of one of
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This 84% of the world grew up with religion impacting the way they live and act in their everyday lives. This changes amongst different religions. Christians base life choices on what they believe is right by the bible. Focusing on the Christianity view on love, there are no references to the word romance in the Bible, but there are 281 mentions of love. (reference)The bible talks about two types of love: agape and philia. Agape is the type of love represented by God’s love for us, and is an unconditional love “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16). This type of love is a spiritual connection which requires a relationship with Christ. The other kind of love is philia