What is man but God's attempt at deification? Maybe I just don't see where you're coming from, but I'm not very confused. Man is special because God gave him certain qualities - free will, intellect, individuality, the ability to build relationships, and therefore to love. Sin, of course, corrupted us... but whoever said that it took away the qualities that make us special? If that were the case, we would have been a failed creation and our very existence would be pointless.

So then, love is both human and a reflection of God. Anything created reflects some aspect of its creator, but does so by having certain independant qualities of its own. I suppose your problem arises from trying to pick between the two.

As for different kinds of love, I don't really buy that. To me, there is only one love, even though certain other things are often referred to using the same word. Love, imo, is selflessness. Other things (infatuation and the like) can often be boiled down to being either true love or selfish... and often a mix of the two. Not that selfishness is bad, of course, just that it is so overwhelming a part of our beings that anything not selfish is special (love).


Well, I hoped I saw where you were coming from and helped out.

-Brent