Which appears to be a better example of Unconditional Love: Maternal (& Paternal) Love or God's Love?

Question

I recognize that not all parents are unconditionally loving, but most are, even to the point of sacrificing themselves to save their wayward children. Jesus even used the example of a parent's unconditional love in the parable of the prodigal son.

However, I'm not certain where eternal torment in hell fits with unconditional love.

If hell exists at all, isn't that testimony that most parents are more loving than God?

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If accepting a theology is a requirement for gaining access to love, that love is the opposite of unconditional. It is bound entirely to the condition of belief.

Answer 1

Parental love, however imperfect, is a better example of "unconditional" love than anything Biblegod has ever done. If I screw up or anger my mother or commit a crime, she's still there for me. Biblegod, meanwhile, scans your every action and thought and if he sees something--no matter how trivial--he doesn't like...*poof*. Dead or worse.

And he's sadistic about it too, claiming that people ignorant of him will be judged according to their works (dangling that little ray of hope out there) but then declaring that all human works are as less than dust. So...*poof* to all the ignorant ones as well. Presumably that might include people who are mentally incapable of understanding his "Word" as well.

Unless, of course, you kiss his ring and stroke his ego they way he wants it to be stroked. The problem there being that no one can agree for sure just what it is that would make him happy. He's like a petulatn tyrant demanding "Please me!" and not providing a hint of what he wants beyond a rambling set of scrolls and letters written a couple thousand years ago.

Bottom line: Parents exist. God doesn't. Parents win. Even if Biblegod was real, parents still win.

Answer 2

Yeah Jesus used that example another case of a childless person telling parents how to parent. He was from a dysfunctional family himself. He was the son of GOD who sent him to earth to be horribly killed on a cross , his mother was a virgin when he was born, he had an aunt who had a baby at the unbelievable age of 100 or something. Yeah hes one to talk of unconditional love when all his love is conditional upon you believing in him and only him.

Answer 3

Unconditional love of God allows your sins to be forgiven through
your faith in Christ - that His death and resurrection gives us Eternal Life. Just imagine what you might be as a Buddhist - you may be a vampire in your next life.

God's mercy cannot be fathomed, he created us and will try to redeem us, Only fools cannot see His grace.

Parents are fallible, they may even lead you to Eternal separation from God (not torment in hell physically, but mental anguish in missing the last boat to heaven).

Answer 4

I replied this final night yet see that it is been bumped off by skill of a few bigger skill. actual I spoke back: examine your dictionary for the definition of unconditional. God's love is, certainly in keeping with situations. chatting with humanity in the process the Prophet Amos God provides an insane tirade threatening to frighten us so badly that we are going to tremble on the sound a leaf makes whilst the wind blows. He delivers to make us so hungry we can devour our very own little ones. yet, IF we stick to his instructions THEN he will bear in suggestions his covenant with Abraham. God invented "hard love". He opened the Earth and swallowed the entire tribe of Rueben because of the fact he enjoyed them lots. After extra advantageous the Tribes in the process the barren area for 40 years, Moses grew to become into allowed to view the Holy Land from a distance yet no longer enter. God killed Moses somewhat than enable him set foot in the Holy Land!! it quite is tough love, and it is conditional. it is conditional.

Answer 5

Listen, I'm getting tired of you constantly putting down God because you can't and won't accept the fact that He will not NOW nor will He ever accept the fact that you are a practicing homosexual.

He DOES, however, offer you eternal life through His Son who DIED for your sins. How many human parents do you know that have ever had to PROVE their love to such an extent? Now LAY off God! If YOU DON'T want HIM, FINE! quit knocking Him to justify your own guilt before Him though. It won't hold any ground come judgment day!

Answer 6

Even some of the best parents have grown children who choose to go off a way that the parents know is not best for their children, and still they have to let them make their own way in the world--even though, as a result, those children may suffer many times over. The only other other option is to compell those children to live a certain way against thier will.

God is holy, and our sin has divided us from him and his plan that we live in peace and complete satisfaction with him. Since he loves us, he sent Jesus to die in our place for our sins. All we have to do is recognize our sinfulness and accept forgiveness through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

If we don't accept that forgiveness, we cannot in our sinfulness live in the presence of God. Yet still he gives us that choice. He doesn't say you must accept against your will. What people don't understand is that everything good in this world comes from God. When you choose to reject the gift of forgiveness and live outside of his presence, you are rejecting everything that comes from God. That's where hell and eternal torment fit in. Without love, beauty, wonder, excitement, tasty treats, warmth, light, acceptance, honesty, comfort, peace, joy, fun, humor, etc. what do you have?

Decay, dishonesty, oppression, abuse, maliciousness, hatred, rage, dissatisfaction, etc. The result is sufferring. It is the natural result of choosing to live outside the presence of God.

In response to your additional comment . . . God loves even those who reject him and suffer apart from him. "He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." He cannot in his holiness live with those who are sinful, so he made a way to bridge the gap between our sinfulness and his holiness. He leaves the choice of whether or not to accept that way totally up to us.

Answer 7

The teaching of the church, as I understand it, is that we must believe in hell, but we do not have to believe that anyone ever goes there. My mother told me about the boogie man when I was little so I would not do something stupid and dangerous like going outside alone at night. Have you ever know anyone that actually got grabbed by the boogie man? I haven't.

Answer 8

God's "love", as described in the Bible, leaves a lot to be desired. I would consider parental love more unconditional.

Answer 9

God's Unconditional Love.

He came onto the Earth to Sacrifice himself for all of our Sins, so that we may not have to accept the eternal punishment which we deserve. All we have to do is accept it.

Answer 10

God loves you, but according to the Bible, if you don't follow him then yes, you go to Hell when you die.

Maternal and paternal love is great, but it usually has a limit. If you're talking about Christianity, God sent his Son to die on the cross for our sins. That's a really big thing to do, even though Jesus resurrected himself.