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Replying to prettyruth.
Indeed the love of God is supernatural. It is agape love and no one has the ability to express God’s kind of love except he or she is born again and knows God. 1 John 4 tells us that he that does not love, does not know God. I quite appreciate the perspective you bring to this discussion, especially with regard to the relationship between Peter and Jesus Christ.
Interesting for you to state that at the time when Peter and Jesus had that conversation in John 21: 15 -19, Peter did not have the ability to express agape love because he was yet to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. This begs the question; at what point did Peter get born again? At the resurrection or at Pentecost? Another question that comes to my mind as I ponder on this is whether it is possible for a human being to express God’s kind of love to another human being in the same intensity and nature as God expresses it simply because they are born again.
The example of Hosea and Gomer the harlot seems to paint a picture that portrays this possibility but in my opinion, while the ability to express the God kind of love is embedded in us as believers, we still have to continually renew our minds experientially to be able to scratch the surface when it comes to being able to fully express this unconditional and eternal love of God.