This is a follow up from my last question.
The question has arose of what is "unconditional Love"...can it be acheived. I think all love has conditions because we choose to put them on "love". If we have a choice to love or not too..do we not have a choice to love unconditionally also ?? Why is this so difficult for us to understand.
Let's look at it this way. Christ Loved us uncondiotianlly, he gave his life for you and me...if a Christian claims to be "Christ Like"...why do we put conditions to love...?? Would this not be considered out of his will..."if a man strikes your cheek, do you not turn the other"??
2006-08-29 15:39:58 · 18 answers · asked by O Jam 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
Please do not think I am so smug not to recognize my own short comings...I can't do it either....I love my family as well, but think I put some conditoins on their love too.
If anyone can firgure this out...they will be a rich man.
2006-08-29 16:18:19 · update #1
It's not a choice - either you do or you don't.
2006-08-29 15:41:54 · answer #1 · answered by puma 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not a Christian, but I will attempt to answer this. From personal experience, the times that I have experienced pure, unconditional love was when I felt good about myself, when I felt my Goddess within. During these moments my heart is a fountain of love and I am able to give without end. When the self-doubts and fears return, a wall of uncertainty is constructed and the fountain is subdued.
2006-08-29 22:52:44 · answer #2 · answered by Optimistic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The last time I struck someone's cheek, I got the hell beat out of me....and I was just testing the Christianity thing...hmmmmm...didn't seem to work any better than unconditional love to me. The last time I saw a guy love a woman with unconditional love, he was walked all over, called a whimp, and left to bleed out of his check book when she took him to the unconditional cleaners. My dog loves me unconditionally. AS for people, I will keep my eyes wide open, thanks anyway.
2006-08-29 22:44:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Christ did love us uncondtionally. But we are not Christ, no Christian is like Christ. We try hard not to hate, have resentments, but we do. There are conditions of love. There has to be. It's possible you love your bestfriend, but not as much as your spouse. Your bestfriend may share the same interest and chats with you, however, your spouse is someone that you're with everyday and you share a different kind of love.
2006-08-29 22:45:38 · answer #4 · answered by Christine S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love my children unconditionally. It doesn't matter what they do or say, it won't make me not love them.
As far as my husband ... I think we all put conditions on that kind of love. The reason is there is no bloodline there to bond us together. It's a different kind of love. We expect to be loved back; we expect to be shown/told we are loved, etc. Those are all conditions.
2006-08-29 22:45:29 · answer #5 · answered by Lady J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends some of us do love unconditionally just its only our partner. Unconditional love is hard for a person in this day in age simply cause we see to much of the flaws and hold to much fear in us to allow ourselves to be open like that.
2006-08-29 22:43:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call myself a Christian, but I am a human being.....other than Jesus, I don't know of ANYONE who can love unconditionally.....we all try, including me......I say I love my children unconditionally, but that is not true...as I have some expectations of them. Unconditional loves expects NOTHING.
2006-08-29 23:08:04 · answer #7 · answered by Cassie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the kind of love Christ have for us is unconditional, also the love between mother and child is unconditional, but the love between a boy and a girl as in pre-marital affairs can not be unconditional.
2006-08-29 22:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by Sir Joe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not Christ I don't need to love everyone unconditionally. I love my children unconditionally, but my husband has to behave himself or he's out of here.
2006-08-29 22:43:30 · answer #9 · answered by connie_mspt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In one of my favorite movies, Kathy Bates's "Unconditional Love", unconditional love is defined as loving someone and now caring that they don't love you back.
Most people find that hard to do.
2006-08-29 22:50:04 · answer #10 · answered by Bobbie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not difficult to understand at all.
you are raising a condition to the way somebody has to love, for instance.
why don't you accept other kinds of love, with tons of conditions? it's not "love" for you? you are conditioning what you consider "love", as anybody else.
2006-08-29 22:45:19 · answer #11 · answered by marumaar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋