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 The biblical view on creation is that God has created the human as man and woman. He has
 created two genders, to give them a basis for love. All our bodies are made for a community of
-a man and a woman. Two genders as complementary types made to love each other.
+a man and a woman. Two genders as complementary types made to love each other. Also, God has
+created the family to be a relationship of love. Children need to be nurtured, protected
+and supported. The whole circle of life is made to be filled with love, trust and truth.
 And God has created man to love him. He has created man such that God could love man, and man
 could love God. We are made in the image of God. We are made as something alike him, reflecting
-his splendor, his love. We are made to fall in love with him - as we are made to fall in
+his splendor, his love, his freedom, his majesty.
-love with the other gender.
+We are made to fall in love with him - as we are made to fall in love with a partner.
 Love is an important topic throughout all biblical books, Old Testament and New Testament
-alike. The apostel John talks about it in his letters, here some important remarks, which need
+alike. The apostle John talks about it in his letters, here some important remarks, which need
 to be taken together to show their full meaning:
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 .15 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.
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 </color> (1 John 2, 15-16 + 3, 11+14)
+If desire for or love to particular goods or recognition or people becomes our main target
+and the center of our life, we experience a destruction of the life, love, freedom and
+majesty which God made us for. This is what "do not love the world" means. The world is
+still wonderful. It is made by God, and what he made was good. It is fantastic to see,
+amazing and full of wonder! Yet, it is not there to be the center of our life. It is not
+there to take the role of God as the center of our love. And the love of God is more than
+desire.
+God himself so loved the world that he gave his only son, to save it. We are invited
+to enter this community of love, where forgiveness has been established by the cross of Christ
+Jesus. This love means a wide freedom, but not the freedom to become slaves again of
+love to the world in a worldly way, but to love the way Jesus does. His way! It is a
+fantastic path to explore his way, each and every day ...
 (Roland Potthast)