The word the Spirit uses to describe Jesus’s relationship with the family is agape. The word they use is phileo - it is the word for brotherly or friend affection. Both words are translated as "love." This illustrates the limits of words to convey full meaning. Eskimos have many words for snow because it is so essentially part of their environment. There are nuances in their language to account for how they see and experience snow: qanik: snow falling, aputi: snow on the ground, aniu: snow used to make water, maujaq (nunavik): the snow in which one sinks, and many more. In the language of heaven there is AGAPE - the divine love, the needless love, the fully committed unrepentant love of God for man. It is the fountainhead of all other loves; the qanik snow that falls upon us so that there may be other forms of love on the ground.
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