No, its not comparable to God. God is a conscious entity that may or may not exist, that created the universe. Love is a concept that describes an emotion humans feel, just like hate. Love exists as an abstraction of actual physical and conscious experiences, thoughts, and feelings. Just like any emotion, hate, jealousy, anger. Do you find those as mysterious as well, or is it just love? Perhaps you are the one who doesn’t know love, and this is merely your projection. If so, that would be unfortunate.
Anything you “Feel” on that level is an emotion. I recommend you learning what love is, perhaps the wiki link will help you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love
While there are different aspects of love and type of love, the one I am referring to is the emotion. If you are referring to another sense of the word, then we’re speaking two different languages. Namely : It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[1]
Whether “chemical reactions” are involved are irrelevant to knowing what love it, by experiencing it or having love. Just the same with anger, terror, happiness, hate. Chemical reactions and feelings are involved in those, and there are varying degrees of intensity, but nonetheless, intense love is still love, and love, is still love.
“i don’t just assume you don’t know love; I know you don’t because you have failed to even show you know exactly what love is”
That is not knowledge; that is an assumption. Simply because I haven’t shown you exactly what love is, doesn’t mean I don’t know what it is, this is a hasty judgment on your part. My knowledge of knowing love is not dependent upon me showing you. I have shown it to others; typing it online the definition of it and description of it, is knowledge of love; experiencing it, well, Is knowing love. You expect me to show you that through the internets? It seems you don’t even understand what kind of “proof” you are asking for.
I will tell you that one of the purest forms of love I have experienced is the love of my children. That is where the empathy and sacrifice of love comes to fruition the most for me. It’s different from the love of a woman, in that there isn’t sexual desire attached to it, which isn’t necessarily love but can be confused as such. Most parents should be able to agree with the sentiment of this statement, as is probably unable to be understood entirely by most non parents. Of course, parents who aren’t involved in their child’s life are an exception, they’re not really parents… so much.
When you receive joy and happiness from vicariously seeing the person you love experiencing joy and happiness, it is an indication of love. It is even a greater indication of love when the person you love experiences joy and happiness at the cost of your own self sacrifice. Perhaps you understand that yes? Perhaps you don’t. If not, I would say you truly do not know what love is, and assume to think that everyone else must not know either.