Scholars from the Song Dynasty had already realized that filial piety (Xiao) and brotherly love (Ti) cannot be equated with Ren. Therefore one cannot interpret Ren as the ethic of consanguinity. In this article, I argue that Ren symbolizes the transcendental path ”from one to the other” and ”extrapolation”, while Agape suggests the path ”in God” (in other words, in the capital Other) and ”coming down.” From the perspective of a typology of tension, Ren is positive and Agape negative. There is a major problem in following the path of Ren: how to overcome the graduated love and to transform into the differentiated one. The typical manifestation of Ren, in the context of Chinese language and culture, is always coming with the consciousness of relational coexistence, and more concrete and particularistic, while the typical manifestation of Agape, in the context of the West, is coming with the consciousness of individual, and more of the abstract conviction to the finality and certainty, and therefore more universalistic. Ren entails the feeling of virtue, self-attaining, and self-transformation, while Agape entails the feeling of sin, delivering (from the Other), and grace (in or of the Other). Both of them may need to move toward the middle ground. Finally, it should be noted that the difference between the Confucian Ren and the Christian Agape is not categorical but relative.