Do you have it with at least one person?There are a lot of family that I love unconditionally!
2006-10-31 13:41:03 · 19 answers · asked by happy1here♥ 5 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
I am a firm believer in unconditional love. Loving unconditionally is something that just happens for me. There are different degrees of love. I love my children unconditionally, but I love them different from the way I love my husband unconditionally. The love that Christ has for us sinful men is unconditional, although some of the things he promised to do for us are based on conditions. That has nothing to do with his love for us. He may not like everything we do, and we don't like everything some people we know do, but that shouldn't stop us from loving them, and Christ always loves us.
2006-10-31 13:45:55 · answer #1 · answered by Special K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that there is any such thing as unconditional love. you say there is a lot of family that you love unconditionally. What would you do if one of them betrayed you in the worst way. It is easy to say love unconditionally, but I have never head of any one doing it. There are always conditions
2006-10-31 13:47:23 · answer #2 · answered by rkilburn410 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really love unconditionally? Test yourself. Would you treat your family member(s) ANY differently if:
1. They married someone you disapproved of?
2. They announced that they were gay?
3. They left the religion you believe in?
4. They had a falling out with your parent(s)?
5. They stood you up or failed to remember your anniversary, birthday, lunch date, etc.?
However, having said that, I DO believe in unconditional love, I just don't see it very often at all. I have 4 siblings, 3 girls and a brother. I am very close to one sister who is 12 years my senior. I am not close to my twin sister. Nor am I close to my brother who is 8 years my senior, or my oldest sister who is 15 years older than me. Why? Because I recently left the religion that we had all shared for 40 years. I just don't believe it anymore. I tried to explain it to the 3 of them, but they think I'm only doing it so I can go out and party and have the time of my life without any accountability (which is partly true). My one sister just happened to have a doctrinal separation earlier than mine, but stayed quiet about it so she wouldn't hurt the others' feelings. When she found out about my own separation from the Church, she welcomed me. But more importantly, she ALWAYS loved me, even when I screwed up! She and I have gotten SO close during the years because of that. She is a RARE person! Were it not for her, I would definitely NOT believe in unconditional love!
2006-10-31 14:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by KevinMack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in unconditional love because, Jesus Christ loves us unconditionally. I know as a Christian, I am capable of loving unconditionally. I love my child that way, which can be challenging since she has become a teen.
2006-10-31 14:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by LadyJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God loves unconditionally, his love is perfect and unselfish. If you read the Bible and develop a personal relationship with God he teaches you how to love. I personally do not believe it is love unless it is unconditional. When you place conditions on your love, that's not really loving at all.
2006-10-31 14:47:00 · answer #5 · answered by Forever_Young 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read your question over at least a half dozen times and for some reason at first it didn't make sense. But what is love if it has to be conditional? I have never thought of love as being that way but if you stop and think about it, is there any love if you have to have some conditions to it other then loving one another? Confusing isn't it?
2006-10-31 14:00:33 · answer #6 · answered by AL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Sorry but there are conditions to my love. A person has to be kind. They can't kick other people around and expect to be loved by anyone.
They have to try to be good decent people, not thieves, murderers or abusers.
They have to try to do something with their lives, not just be lazy, freeloading bums.
If we are supposed to love people who are mean and nasty, liars, cheats, thieves, and murderers, then we should have to love Satan as well.
We are supposed to try to be as much like Jesus as possible but we are not Jesus so if we are treated badly by the people we are supposed to love, we can't do it.
Anyone can say they love someone unconditionally but I don't believe anyone really does. They a can talk the talk but they can not walk the walk.
This doesn't mean that you can't care for bad people. We can and do. We want the best for them, we want them to be good so that they can be loved. We try to help them be good, decent people but if they are not and do not try to be, we do not continue to give them love. If we could, we would all be equal to Jesus and no one is equal to Jesus.
2006-10-31 13:51:24 · answer #7 · answered by nellie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Love itself is already a selfish action.
You love someone or something means you want to have it or own it.
It is True that love from god is unconditional, but god is god. The human choose to believe god is in return looking for some return from god.........
Someone saying loving their own children is unconditional, I just want to ask them, "did they ever expect some return or something from their child in their whole life?" I would put my doubt on that.
Unconditional love is no longer exit in this real world.
2006-10-31 13:41:44 · answer #8 · answered by Vangelis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do believe that. and it ONLY comes from God. His love for you is unconditional. there is nothing you can do that can lessen or add up to the love HE already has for you. you are never far from His love.
2006-10-31 13:43:27 · answer #9 · answered by Jacqueline 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do. Didnt before.
Also depends on the person.
Ill only break my back for someone who does the same.
Family has screwed me over. But my husband has always had my back.
2006-10-31 13:44:11 · answer #10 · answered by dymedouthunni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋