C>>The ONLY way in which you can equate a person to a state or process is figuratively/metaphorically.<<
K>> Unless the state and the process is complete and the person has reached the object of the process. It is also more probable that God started out as love and did not need a process to be in that staqte.
States can be reduced to adjectival phrases, and therefore perform like adjectives. Consider, for instance, whether "God is love" is not the same kind of statement as "The ball is red". There is no equivalence between "ball" and "red"; other things can be red, other things can be balls.
A process which has "reached it's objective" has ended, and is no longer a process (or, indeed, anything).
Love is not a "thing". In the sense that a person is a "thing", God is a "thing". There cannot be direct equivalence.
Love is also intrinsically a relationship. I'm wholly unconvinced that the concept of love in the absence of relationship has any meaning, so would question whether "God is love" can have meaning independently of there being something other than God which could be related to. |