How can God Be Love?

We tend to distinguish who we are from what we do.&nbsp;So, I am Jeff, and I am always Jeff.&nbsp;I might be skiing or not skiing.&nbsp;I might be fishing or not fishing.&nbsp;What I do can change, but what I am remains the same.&nbsp;In modern times our names don’t tend to tell us very much about who the person is that bears it, but this wasn’t always the case.&nbsp;Take the famous Viking, Ivar the Boneless.&nbsp;Ivar suffered from some kind of deboning ailment in his legs, identified at his birth and contributing to his name.&nbsp;Ivar the Boneless was always the Boneless, whether he was fishing or skiing.&nbsp;(And yes, I imagine that if he skied, he probably did so on a sled, being boneless!)&nbsp;He could stop fishing or start skiing, but either way he always remained boneless.&nbsp;Thus, Ivar’s name tells us something significant about who he was, not just what he did.&nbsp;His name offers us an essential quality of Ivar, one that never changed, one that always identified who he was. <a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40503836&fan_landing=true">Support this podcast</a>