True Love, Volume 1: A Biblical View of God’s Love

by Ricky Lee Ohl

Publisher:

Resource Publications

, 2025

Overview

God, JEHOVAH (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), is love and a fundamental pillar of the person and word of God is God’s love. JEHOVAH sent his only begotten Son, Jesus, into the world because he loved mankind. In Genesis 3:15 we learn that God made provision for the redemption of fallen mankind through the Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus the Messiah is God’s provision for the reconciliation of mankind with God. Jesus has always existed with the Father and the Holy Spirit. By him (Jesus) all visible and invisible things were created and by him all things consist (Col 1:16-17). Hence, the ultimate demonstration and provision of God’s love to mankind is God becoming a man and giving himself as the required sacrifice for the salvation of those who will confess with their mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in their heart that God has raised him from the dead.
Jesus taught that the Great Commandment is to love God and the Second Commandment is to love one another. God first loved us, and we are to love God and mankind like Jesus loves us. It is fundamental for mankind to seek to know God, his love, and his ways.

Praise for True Love, Volume 1

“Love Is indeed ‘a many-splendored thing.’ This volume usefully sheds light on different aspects that lay readers rarely distinguish. Informed both by personal devotion and scholarship, the author uses hermeneutics better to understand the various terms for love as used in scripture, considering both the Hebrew and the Greek terms used originally. Focusing on the book of 1 John, God’s love (agape) is related to our own practical lives in a systematic and commendable exegesis.”

—John Gammack, Professor, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University



“This could be my own theology course notes. It is solid and systematic. ‘Loving God’ is anomalous; widely incomprehensible. Spiritual love, in chesed and agape, is a perfect peak. Other kinds of love fall away. Is this crazy? Those who follow it working out through scripture here may recognize a miracle.”

—Peter Duxbury-Smith, architect in AI and machine learning



“Ours is an age rich in information, yet poor in wisdom. Even we followers of Christ, while striving to become data literate, sometimes remain biblically illiterate. In this invaluable book, Dr. Ricky Ohl turns us back to the Bible, focusing forensically on what it says about life’s most urgent need and heaven’s most profound and transformative gift, love. This book is very good news, from start to finish.”

—Mal Fletcher, Chairman, 2030Plus



“This short book should be studied by anyone who has pondered the biblical concept of love. Dr Ohl explores the Greek and Hebrew words usually translated in English as ‘love’ or ‘charity.’ He identifies the basis of love as orientation toward the welfare of another/others. He argues that biblical love cannot sustain universalist or Calvinist perspectives on salvation. Biblical love, he argues, is consistent with the free choice associated with Arminianism. Thought-provoking indeed.”

—Rod St Hill, IgniteLife Church, Gold Coast, Australia

Product Details

• Title: True Love, Volume 1: A Biblical View of God’s Love
• Author: Ricky Lee Ohl
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 78
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9798385242634, 9798385242627, 9798385242610
• Resource ID: LLS:9798385242634
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-23T00:24:19Z

About the Author

Ricky Ohl is a Postgraduate Lecturer at Central Queensland University and PhD Supervisor at Alphacrucis University College. He has also functioned as an Academic Department Head and Senior Lecturer. He is the author of “Computer Supported Argument Visualisation: Modelling in Consultative Democracy around Wicked Problems” in Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques (2008, 2014).