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The name contains the Hebrew root 'to love'. The birds are mated and seldom separated. This | The name contains the Hebrew root 'to love'. The birds are mated for life and seldom separated. This may be part of what Adam saw, but if this was all, we would have difficulty understanding why it is an unclean bird. Love is a good thing to learn. But the Gier eagle eats almost nothing but carrion or road kill. | ||
The name actually means 'not understanding love'. Though they are together in the appearance of love, they eat nothing but dead rotting things. Someone who loves you teaches you good things, not bad things. If your friend wants you to do bad things, you know there is no love there. | The full name actually means 'not understanding love'. Though they are together in the appearance of love, they eat nothing but dead rotting things. Someone who loves you teaches you good things, not bad things. If your friend wants you to do bad things, you know there is no love there. | ||
It is true that when we eat the bread of communion, we are learning from the death of Jesus, but it is followed by the wine or 'living water' as a symbol of the life he gives us through his resurrection. | It is true that when we eat the bread of communion, we are learning from the death of Jesus, but it is followed by the wine or 'living water' as a symbol of the life he gives us through his resurrection. | ||
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Paul teaches that if we don't have love, our faith, generosity, knowledge, and sacrifices mean nothing. <ref>{{bgw|Co 13:2,3 }} And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.</ref> | Paul teaches that if we don't have love, our faith, generosity, knowledge, and sacrifices mean nothing. <ref>{{bgw|Co 13:2,3 }} And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.</ref> | ||
The one who truly loves eats the living word of God with others. | The one who truly loves, eats or learns from, the living word of God with others. | ||
* gier eagle ''haracham'' הרחם - not understanding ה love רחם. | * gier eagle ''haracham'' הרחם - not understanding ה love רחם. | ||
