1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 3:16-17
God LOVES the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God is LOVE...And God also LOVES the world and everyone it the world...These two statements seem similar, but they are distinct and different...
To say that God is LOVE means that He is LOVE...If we make a comparison or an analogy, let us say to the sun, the sun cannot be what it is not...The sun must give off heat and warm us...Hot is what the sun is...And God who is LOVE must radiate His LOVE toward and to us...God must LOVE us, because He is LOVE...So God does so LOVE the world that He might and did send His Son to us to die on the cross for our sins...He nor His Son have sinned...They do not sin...Because it is not in their nature to sin...And God could have sent His Son to condemn us or to chastise us or even to criticize us for sinning, but He did not...He sent His Son to save us...And He sent His Son to save us, because He LOVES us...