Can you describe it to me?
2007-08-11 17:10:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can believers understand love period?
2007-08-11 17:16:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You must mean the unconditional "Love Me or you will burn in hell forever!" kind of unconditional love that God shows.
I consider unconditional the love for my family and relatives. No matter what they do, I will put every effort into preventing any harm of any kind to them.
This is not like anything I have ever heard from a preacher in all of my entire life.
2007-08-11 17:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly, it is accepting and embracing a person for who they are. It may mean not embracing them, as in tough love. It is "non-contractual" love. In fact, the biggest issue I have with Calvinism is that it handles this issue a very inconsistent way. It holds that faith is like a conditional contract with God. If you have it, then you go to Heaven. Of course, that is conditional love isn't it. John describes God as Love and in particular agape which is unconditional.
2007-08-11 17:22:14 · answer #3 · answered by OPM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The love I feel for my wife or my daughter is unconditional. I would love them no matter what they did or whatever happened I would not abandon them.
2007-08-11 17:26:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is an atheist mother incapable of loving her children unconditionally?
Of course not.
Unconditional love knows no believe system. People of all belief systems are capable of unconditional love.
2007-08-11 17:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by Adam G 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I understand what unconditional love is. I dont agree with it however. If my brother turned out to be a serial killer I still wouldnt love him. People deserve forgiveness but sometimes you just have to cut ties with people.
2007-08-11 17:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by Drew 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I can understand unconditional love. I have children. I love them, NO MATTER WHAT!
They do not give me eternal life, they do not forgive my sins...
yet I still love them unconditionally.
Jesus' love is not the only "unconditional" love out there. Please don't try to tell me that it is.
2007-08-11 17:16:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
if your sister took your boyfriend every time you got one-could you love her? If your grandpa raped you could you love him? If you can say yes that is unconditional love-that means you love them no matter what...
2007-08-11 17:19:37 · answer #8 · answered by butterflyfrills 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your God's love is practically the definition of "conditional" and you have the audacity to ask us that.
2007-08-11 17:15:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
It means they love you no matter what.
2007-08-11 17:14:35 · answer #10 · answered by WTP 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋