Parablemania: The Science of Love: “three levels of what broadly might be called love: lust, romantic love, and long-term attachment. (In my terms, these would be lust, romantic infatuation, and love. I don’t see the second kind as really love, though it’s often blindly called that by younger people who have never experienced love.) Lust is a craving for sex, and lustful sex leads to a brain state similar to an opium high. Infatuation has ‘feelings of exhilaration, and intrusive, obsessive thoughts about the object of one’s affection.’ This is commonly called ‘being in love’ in high school and even in college. The brain state here doesn’t resemble an opium high but is more like the more permanent brain states of someone with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Finally, there’s what I would say is love, a permanent attachment. The brain state here is similar to what’s associated with ‘feelings of calm, security, social comfort and emotional union.’ “
From the monthly archives:
February 2004
Baconboy’s blog: “Which brings me to my second objection, which is that there is little about humans that are worthy of redemption in this movie. I take human sin and evil very seriously, including my own, but I also believe that there is a reason that God loved us enough to send Jesus to the cross. There are attempts at kindness in the movie, but rather than verifying that humans are worth saving, all they do is underline the cruelty of everyone else. Frankly, after viewing this movie, one wonders why God didnt just wipe the planet clean and start over again. For Jesus sacrifice to be meaningful, humans have to be worth redeeming.”
Theology student or not you really have missed it mate I am afraid! The wonder of the cross is precisely that humans are NOT worth redeeming, and that the ‘logical’ thing to do would be to wipe the slate clean. Thank God he wasn’t logical though. This foolish logic is exactly what the gospel of grace is all about!
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