Author	Thread: Do men have more capacity to love than women?
Handyman62 View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 17 Oct, 2024 03:23 PM I believe the proof of that is that a man's Love is so strong that he's willing to sacrifice his life without hesitation to save his family and not only his family but oftentimes he will do it for others. That parallels Jesus' willingness to sacrifice his life to save mankind. That kind of thing could only come from having a great amount of love to give. That doesn't mean that women don't love or have love to give because women have been known to put themselves between danger and their children. Beyond that their desire for self preservation takes over and removing themselves from danger while the men fight to protect them is their first priority. I also want to add that I don't see that as a bad thing. It's the way God made men & women and there are good reasons for it. One of those reasons is because of the importance of protecting offspring. When women are carrying and raising children they need someone willing to give everything even up to his life to protect them. The best way for God to do that was to give men an absolute unwavering love for his family. On the other hand women don't need, nor is it preferred for them to have that capacity to love because fleeing with the children and/or hiding increases their chance of survival if the men don't survive the threat so they need to be willing to allow someone to sacrifice themselves for them. Post Reply
silver761 View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 19 Oct, 2024 06:51 PM I think, both men and women have equal capacity to love. Why? Because we were both created in God's Image. Woman was not created in an animal's image or Adam's image. Woman was created in God's image. She is just as close to being Godlike as man is. No difference whatsoever. As far as thinking capacity, emotional depth, capacity to love, understand, learn, lead, or survive. Everything is the same except strength and hormones and skeleton. But that's just because the woman's role is to give birth, and it requires different physical design. But that's about it, I think. Post Reply
Handyman62 View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 20 Oct, 2024 09:29 AM Silver761 you're right that we are both created in Gods image, but we didn't get equal parts of God. If we did then men and women would be identical to each other. So if you believe they have equal capacity to love. Then again why are most women unwilling to die for their man? I will however concede that men and women may have the same capacity to love. But I believe that a woman's love is more directed toward herself and what she wants and not towards men or even God for that matter. That again was highlighted in the garden of Eden when Eve was lured by her capacity to love other things to eat of the tree of knowledge and Adams love for her and to please her, he also ate the fruit. The same examples of those kinds of actions are highlighted through out the Bible and even today in modern society. There are many examples of men bending over backwards to please women to attract them for marriage because women demand it. Then once married women overwhelming expect men to bend to their every whim and when the women have decided the grass isn't green enough on their side, they move on to another man who's grass looks greener. Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 20 Oct, 2024 10:09 AM "Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine." Tom T. Hall Post Reply
RyanLovesJesus View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 7 Dec, 2024 04:46 PM Probably. There are numerous examples of husbands in the Bible who love more than one wife but none of wives who love more than one husband. Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 9 Dec, 2024 08:59 AM I love it‼️😃😂🤣 Ryan, are you saying that just one man is more than one woman’s threshold of love can cope with? 😇😇 Post Reply
silver761 View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 23 Feb, 2025 03:32 PM This question reminds me of a funny cartoon I saw online. The guy says to the lady, "I love you 10X more than you love me!" And the lady replies, "Ten times zero is zero, so..." Post Reply
Milkybar View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 13 Mar, 2025 12:51 AM quick answer is we both love the same amount just in different ways as that is our roles resposibilties as God created us. Let me give 2 examples. My love language might be say a typical male one of words of affirmation and my wifes might be quality time. We may both give love fully in our love language but because it is not our partners love language it may be appreciated but not seen as fully loving as it is not in the way they express/feel loved. The same applies for laying down your life. Greater love has no man than he lay down his life for a friend. Notice "man" "he" "his" so that is specifically speaking to a mans roles and reponsibilities and how we cannot show love greater than that as a man. Women show their God given love in different ways but still love as much. 2nd example is of God. We know that God the father and Jesus are both perfect and therefore both fully love the same amount and love us the same full amount. Yet Christ was was the one who gave up his life for us. God the father loves us just as much as Jesus but their difrerent roles means the outworking of that love was in different ways , still equal coz both love and express love fully but due to their different roles the full outworking of that love requires difrerent things. Post Reply
Milkybar View Profile History	Do men have more capacity to love than women? Posted : 13 Mar, 2025 05:01 PM Note also it says Greater love has no man, not the greatest love is...It is subtle difference but Greater love has no man means it can be equaled but not surpassed where as the greatest love would stand alone. On a different tack, when Paul said Men love your wives as Christ loved the church i don't think it was because we as men were doing a great job of that but rather that it was because we needed reminding. Indicating that perhaps we as men(generally as paul was speaking to all men) often dont show love as well or perhaps in the proper form as we should. Post Reply