Do you believe there is such a thing as unconditional love?
2007-10-27 11:49:42 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dr Rick: Get a grip! I was baptized in 2000 already...
2007-10-27 14:08:45 · update #1
Wellll.......at least I got 2 or 3 so far...
It's looking dismal here, folks...it really is!
2007-10-27 14:15:51 · update #2
yes, but finding it...that's the hard part.
2007-10-27 11:53:07 · answer #1 · answered by bloodyakiko 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Unconditional love is a childish fairy tale. Love is an emotion and like any other emotion only arises under certain conditions. Many people say that parent/child love is unconditional, but the parent/child relationship is the condition. Parents give children what they need to survive and children carry on the bloodline and legacy of the parents. If love were truly unconditional, it would be random. You could fall in love with any stranger you encounter, regardless of their desirability. It may sound cynical, but love is based on what we get from our relationships with people. The behaviors that are motivated by love are aimed at preserving the relationship so we can continuing reaping the benefits.
2007-10-27 12:03:29 · answer #2 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
like you assert Unconditional Love in simple terms is. per chance some ought to imagine it change into below it truly is; yet i ought to accept as true with you. many times we in simple terms aspire to the genuine truth that unconditional Love is. ultimately we can enable the phantasm bypass; phantasm can't exist without our participation. after we communicate with God's Love we are referring as you assert to that it truly is neither with-held or given. actually unconditional potential no circumstances; no longer some thing to get wondered about. focusing on what unconditional Love potential ought to/is a effective practise likely:))
2016-10-23 02:14:05 · answer #3 · answered by mayne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus loves us if we believe in him or not. I love my kids no matter what. There is nothing that my babies can do that would ever make me turn my back on them. Even if they turned out to be a murder. So yes love can be "unconditional".
And no I will not put my children out on the streets. It also sounds as if many of you have parents that proved other wise to you and that is really ashame, but I always have and always will from birth to death, will love my kids UNCONDITIONALLY.
2007-10-27 11:55:16 · answer #4 · answered by bella s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so.
But I don't think it is something that can happen; I think it is something that you can conciously decide. Once you accept that "to love" doesn't mean "to be loved" you're a big step forward ... and can more easily accept flaws and faults in others.
The book "David Copperfield" taught me a lot about unconditional respect towards some people and their flaws, and I firmly believe that respect can turn into love.
2007-10-27 11:53:54 · answer #5 · answered by Maria - Godmother II of the AM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, but only purely from God. That should be our goal for everyone. Not to love the sin...but to love the sinner, and to see his potential. The closest thing I can see for that in our lives is a parent's love for their child. No matter what the child does.....the love is there....unconditionally. Unfortunately, that is not the case in all families...and even less as time goes on.
Unconditional love is what would make a marriage work for sure! ....to see the potential in your partner.
2007-10-27 12:08:35 · answer #6 · answered by bethy4jesus 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. God has an unconditional love for His creation. Children have an unconditional love for their parents. Well at least some.
2007-10-27 11:55:08 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Between human beings? Absolutely not.
EVERYONE has a breaking point. There is the point where a parent would put their child on the street. There is a point where a lover would shun their partner. EVERYONE has it, whether they choose to acknowledge that or not.
Animals -- specifically domesticated ones -- are nothing BUT unconditional love. We aren't even capable of reciprocating that.
2007-10-27 11:56:18 · answer #8 · answered by Deke 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This love is called "agapeo" in Greek. God gives his life to sinners whether an atheist (the extreme left) or an gnostic (the extreme right).
Jesus death proves that kind of love by burying all our sins and not to remember them forever.
But that kind of love needs the sinners response. Love is not love until someone respond to that kind of love. No one who loves return it with hate--- who will response hate, only atheist does because atheists do not have love in their heart but hate. They are the extreme of gnostic. The atheist hate gnostic, likewise gnostic hate atheist. Therefore, these two kind of close idealogies who hated each other so much do not have love for God and of course, for men and society. Got it...you atheist and gnostic !!!
Read the Bible...
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2007-10-27 12:12:41 · answer #9 · answered by Bible 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes that means that no matter what happens in a relationship (family, spouses, friends, etc) you can forgive and let go. You can do this with the mercy of God. I know this as a true statement. You can love unconditionally!!!!!
2007-10-28 10:47:12 · answer #10 · answered by Hadassah 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think unconditional love is actually kind of silly. I think there ARE conditions, but people prefer not to acknowledge them.
For instance, if a mother witnessed her child murdering a group of children, I'm sure she would, despite her claim to love her own offspring "unconditionally", reconsider her feelings.
2007-10-27 11:53:33 · answer #11 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋