Short Lessons on Unconditional Love, Agapé: Envisioning is Key to Having Such Love.

Knowledge of Word, the image of Life or God depending on our beliefs, reveals that envisioning is key to having agapé by stating: “We will be like him (Word) because we will envision him just as he is.”

“Envision” is the correct translation here, not “see”,¹ indicating that the responsibility falls on us to envision Word as he is. Until we do, we cannot be like him but instead reflect the error in how we envision him back into ourselves.

This applies to how we envision Word in everyone and give Name all our agapé through them. If I envision Word in you correctly, I reflect the agapé in Word into myself and can love you unconditionally. I can also see whether you are correctly envisioning Word in me and loving me likewise.

Once we have envisioned Word correctly, we know whether others are envisioning Word in us correctly. If not, they show us only conditional love, no love at all, or hatred. We are willing to forgive them for being blind to Word in us, for forgiveness is part of the nature of unconditional love. But also part of agapé’s nature is for us not to be against ourselves.

In other words, forgiving with agapé, sometimes without ever telling them, gives us the clarity of mind to carefully accept or oppose any actions against us. But without agapé, we accept or oppose blindly and sometimes misjudge them and their actions altogether for better or worse.

Envisioning in this context is done spiritually. For more, see this section:

Learning How to See Spiritually

1. Among the four main Greek verbs translated “see”, only horaó forms nouns translated “vision”, which qualifies it to be trans­lated “mentally see” or “envision” also. Horaó is used more often than the other three Greek verbs combined, making the New Testament a book of visions. For one of the primary reasons that Word came was to teach us how to envision (horaó) Name in order to see (blepo, main Greek word for see) Him—through envisioning Word.

Word said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see (blepo) might see (blepo) [if we learn his teach­ing, for this is not foremost physical healing of sight but a renewing of the mind and training of the senses], and that those who see might become blind.” (John 9:39) To the leaders of his time, Word said, “And the Father [Name] who sent me [Word], that One has borne wit­ness concerning me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor have you envisioned (horaó) His form.” (John 5:37)

We know that when he (Word) manifests, we will be like him because we will envision (horaó) him just as he is.” (1 John 3:2)