Deuteronomy 7:9
Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands.
My argument: If God's love is lavished on those who love him and obey his commands, it is conditional love. Conditional love cannot be unfailing.
I know this is just another flagging of a contradiction to show the ridiculousness of fundamentalism, but I am interested to know from those here who believe in God, do you think His love is conditional or unconditional?
2007-10-31 11:44:52 · 19 answers · asked by Buying is Voting 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The more detailed answers here tend to suggest that love has to be taken in order to be given (to lavish is to bestow, confer, give, etc.). However, love is a feeling. Feelings exist without being given nor taken. They just are.
I find it fascinating how much Christians disagree in this regard. I find it terrifying that several respondents below can't even comprehend how much they can contradict themselves in the matter of a few sentences. Of course, if they did have that capacity, they probably wouldn't be fundamentalists in the first place.
Thanks for the answers so far.
2007-10-31 12:34:07 · update #1
His love is unconditional. But you have to actually accept it in order for him to give it to you. That's the only difference between those who receive his blessings and those who don't.
2007-10-31 11:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God's love is sent down here as unconditional. He the Father-Son Spirit of Truth (as Jesus) is freely poured out upon all humans ! John 16:7-16
However, God gives each human full freewill to ACCEPT this infinite, lavish love and mercy or to REJECT TOTALLY this Gift of his matchless love ! Thus each human determines the condition: "To be or to be not ..."
All real love must be conditional on some levels. For example, our Father God has unconditional love for each human person, but He loves atoms and trash cans and bricks and empty galaxies infinitely less than He loves you and loves me ! That is good and Godly conditional love.
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2007-10-31 19:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Unconditional love" is not a biblical term.....God never used it!
He desires good for ALL people. But it is those who are His children that receive His promised blessings. Those who reject Him do not receive these blessings.
God IS love. To reject Him is to reject the love He desires to "lavish" on people.
Even people that God has called to be a special people can still reject these blessing and become desolate:
Luke 13:34-35
34 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 35 Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
(from New International Version)
2007-10-31 19:24:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Christians god's love is unconditional, except the few conditions that you must worship him and follow gods law. Yes, I see a glaring contradiction.
2007-10-31 18:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The key is to a repenting heart. God has wrath and will Love those who do not know Him and try to reach them so they have a chance to accept Him through Jesus and repentance. If a person has been given every chance and hardens their heart away from God then God will turn His back on them and still love for them to accept Him but will let them go into their perversion. There is a limit to God's patience when knowledge has been made clear and He is still rejected.
It is our choice.
2007-10-31 19:09:17 · answer #5 · answered by Dennis James 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God's love is unconditional and inestimable, but it is not a guarantee of anything else .. since divine justice is also a necessary component of the Kingdom of God.
2007-10-31 20:24:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He loves to see you dead and in Hell and that is unconditional! Here is the evidence...
Hosea 9:14-16 (NIV) (the prophet prays to the LORD!!!...) Give them, O LORD— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry. (And God rushes to answer him on the spot!!!) "Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring."
Isn’t God so wonderful??? He always answers our prayer if we ask him “according to his will”!
Jer 16:3-4 (NIV) For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters* (*babies) born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers: "They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like refuse lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth."
2007-10-31 18:54:15 · answer #7 · answered by Opus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unconditional.
2007-10-31 18:49:46 · answer #8 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, but fundamentalists believe that God's love is conditional upon your relationship to Him. God does not love everyone. Psalms 5:5 says "The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do iniquity."
2007-10-31 18:53:41 · answer #9 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definately unconditional.
2007-10-31 18:54:43 · answer #10 · answered by Serious 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋