2. GOD’S LOVE. AND HUMAN LOVE

Perfection is in love.
The union of human and divine activity is best manifested in the realization of the virtue that is the pinnacle and the sum of all others. At first glance, it seems strange. Some would like to see in love pure and plain gift of the Holy Spirit. But even a gift presupposes someone
whoever receives it appreciates who is not wasted. “Only love will appreciate love …” This is also true here, at the meeting of two worlds,
God and a person. Love of God and neighbor is the first and greatest
commandment (Mt 22: 38). None of the true Christians, so he did not doubt that perfection is in love. In the early days, they revered the martyrs because their death is manifestation of love, over which no one has more significant (com. John 15,13). Holy Irene fundamentally resisted the so-called Gnostic, «who they were considered perfect for their knowledge.» It does not save salvation much knowledge, but love. Even good practice and ascetic life would be an unnecessary effort without love. In his Religious History, Theodore described to us the hard life of Syrian monks and their heroic efforts about virtue. In the last chapter of the file, he then notes that the only reason for all this sternness is love. Is good to read again and again the 13th chapter of the first letter to the Corinthians, often called the “Song of Love” of the New Testament: If I spoke in human and angelic languages, and love.I wouldn’t, I would be like a chirping metal and smelling dulcimer … Now remains faith, hope, love, these three; well, the greatest of these is love. God’s love and human love.
What is love? Eros – agape
There is sometimes talk of various schools of spiritual life. It cannot be understood as one more they cared about love more than others. It’s more about how they imagine its implementation. It is not easy to understand what love is  Holy John Klimek writes: “He who speaks of God’s love speaks of God himself. It’s difficult and dangerous to get into talking about God for the one who does not connect concepts well. Love is a matter for angels. Even for those, it is more or less demanding according to the degree of illumination it is receiving I’m getting. God is love (1 John 4:16). Anyone who wants to explain the depth of this term in words would resemble the blind, who is standing on a boat and wants to measure how far the sand goes sea ​​depths. »Nevertheless, we humans must express our words. The history of the word “love” taught us all about his content. The Slovak term is inclusive. We don’t have much to choose to express different shades. Other languages are not much better at it. Nevertheless, in Greek, the grammar of the New Testament, we come across two initially words of a completely different tribe: eros and agape. The Scandinavian Protestant Bishop A. Nygren also tried to make a fundamental difference in their meaning. Although we can’t accept his last conclusions, yet correctly rated the dual origin and meaning of the word “love,” philosophical and Christian. There are three fundamental contradictions between metaphysical reasoning and revelation contained in the Gospel. 
1. The first principle, which is clear to Aristotle, sounds pessimistic to our ears: God cannot love man, the world, and nothing beyond. We love what we want we desire. We desire what we need.
GOD LIFE IS THE LIGHT OF PEOPLE 
There is nothing outside because it has everything. So, he is happy with himself he loves himself and nothing but himself.
2. The second principle, which so beautifully developed Plato in
His Feast (Symposium) sounds much more acceptable to us: Man cannot live without love for God. For we need material things, but above all, the whole being we long for our soul for beauty, truth, right. The fullness of it, however, it is only in God, that is why we love God. Without love for God would not be a man capable of ideals either.
3. The third principle, however, seems strange to us, it albeit
follows logically from the previous one: Happiness is not in love,
but self-sufficiency. Whoever longs for something does not have it. It does not make us happy about what we do not have, but what we do
we have. But we love what we don’t have. So, love is an expression of poverty. Therefore, in mythology, the God Eros was born from Mother Penna, deficiency.
These three claims of Greek philosophy are opposed by three,
at first glance quite contradictory truths of a revelation:
1. God is love (1 John 4: 16); 2. All love comes from God; 3. Man’s perfection is in love, and therefore his happiness. However, it is inconceivable that faith could teach something contrary to common sense, which is contrary to the evidence of such great philosophers. So there seems to be a difference in understanding the very word of love that it is a variety of terms. The Greek word Eros means love in the sense of desire for something, requests, needs.