John wrote "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
John also wrote "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
With the exception of John 9:32 in every instance the word translated "world" is defined by Strong's Exhaustive Concordance as (2889-the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively)
God loved the world but we are not to love the world. Does that appear a bit odd?"
Matthew recorded Jesus saying "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
Could the lesson possibly be we are not to become enthralled with the physical? We are to be looking to Heaven where are heart is to be.
Listen to our prayers look at our actions. They are all about the here and now, the physical.
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