Think about the people you love. What could they do that would cause you to forever excommunicate them? What could they do that would cause you to punish them eternally? What could they do to make you decide that you want them to stay away from you for eternity, with no hope of redemption?
If you can think of anything, then those are the conditions under which you would continue to love them. If you can't think of anything that would cause you to do those things, then you love that person unconditionally.
Now, when you talk about a god's unconditional love, then you are saying that regardless of what a person says, does, or thinks, that particular god loves them and would never do anything to eternally separate itself from them, especially not things as trivial as not believing a religion of a people that you never knew. Would you call it love if Zeus is the true god, and since you didn't believe it he sent you off to burn for eternity in Hades?
2007-09-17
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