dc, you may understand Faith, Hope and Love as being an “order” of process of growth and maturity, but I understand them differently.
Love = God, the Father
Faith = God, the Son
Hope = God, the Holy Spirit
The greatest is Love which is God, the Father.
All three are present and working together simultaneously at every true conversion of a believer and continue to work together simultaneously in the believer’s growth and maturing.
God’s ways are so high and greater than our understanding. The moment we think He is a “solid”......”poof” He turns into a “gas” then, we think He’s a “gas” and He turns into a “liquid.” Lol!
When in reality, He is and can be all three.
I’ve learned to just flow simultaneously with Him. Love is the key to being flexible and moving with Him.
Everything works by love. Without love there is nothing- not even faith or hope.
While I appreciate your zeal you are wrong on love.......it is a process of growth and maturity in a believer....it is not something we have naturally, it is not completely given at the moment of faith and REQUIRES a process of GROWTH and maturity to be perfect in us. NOTICE all below are written to people who are already SAVED.....
ADD to your faith CHARITY <--LOVE
LORD DIRECT your HEARTS into the LOVE of GOD
PUT ON LOVE
HIS love is PERFECTED IN US
MAKE you INCREASE and ABOUND in LOVE
And beside this, giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness,
charity
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity
And the Lord
make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all
men, even as we
do toward you:
If we love one another,
God dwelleth in us,
and his love is perfected in us.
Perfected is a VERB...NOTE what it states concerning HIS LOVE IN US
teleioó: to bring to an end,
to complete, perfect
Original Word: τελειόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: teleioó
Phonetic Spelling: (tel-i-o'-o)
Definition: to bring to an end, to complete, perfect
Usage: (a) as a course, a race, or the like: I complete, finish (b) as of time or prediction: I accomplish, (c) I make perfect; pass: I am perfected.
And I disagree with the bolded in your post.....without FAITH there cannot be HOPE and or LOVE....you still have it backwards....