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Suzianne, recently on the 'Who is the bigger blasphemer?' thread:

"Dogs understand having an unconditional love, and therefore, in some respects I can see dogs having a better understanding of God than some people do."

Is this a perspective that Christians here are inclined to agree with?

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Originally posted by FMF
Suzianne, recently on the 'Who is the bigger blasphemer?' thread:

[b]"Dogs understand having an unconditional love, and therefore, in some respects I can see dogs having a better understanding of God than some people do."

Is this a perspective that Christians here are inclined to agree with?[/b]
No its hogwash. Gods love is not unconditional. A fact often misunderstood by those with a purely emotional faith. He only holds out the prospect of everlasting life to those who put faith in his son, just by way of example. John 3:16. Clearly the condition is that you exercise faith in Jesus Christ.

The idea that Gods love is unconditional is rather interesting and I would be interested in discussing how or why it has come about either scripturally or otherwise.

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I have already provided a scriptural reason with reference which demonstrates that Gods love is not unconditional. Why you seek to introduce irrelevancies when the subject under discussion is not salvation but gods love I cannot say. Are you capable of maintaining a line of thought in harmony with the discussion?

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I have a message from you from Badger, he says, Die! I am sure you understand what its with reference to, I don't, I am only the messenger.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I have already provided a scriptural reason with reference which demonstrates that Gods love is not unconditional. Why you seek to introduce irrelevancies when the subject under discussion is not salvation but gods love I cannot say. Are you capable of maintaining a line of thought in harmony with the discussion?
You mentioned John 3:16. Is John 3:16 about "salvation"? Or is it about "love"?

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Originally posted by FMF
You mentioned John 3:16. Is John 3:16 about "salvation"? Or is it about "love"?
why are you assuming that both are mutually exclusive? if you are not assuming that they are mutually exclusive then your question makes no logical sense. I have provided a reference which demonstrates that Gods love is not unconditional. Are you saying that it is unconditional, Yes? then what basis do you have? If not then please spare me these petty squabbles about whether the verse is about love or salvation. I am not interested.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
why are you assuming that both are mutually exclusive?
Because of what John 3:16 actually says.

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So why are you making a distinction between Gods love and everlasting life? Is not everlasting life an expression of Gods love? why are you assuming that they are mutually exclusive? if they are not mutually exclusive then your assumption that they are and the reasoning you give make NO SENSE, so tell us why they should be considered mutually exclusive? Here i will make it easy for you

everlasting life is not an expression of gods love because. . . . .

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Originally posted by FMF
Because of what John 3:16 actually says.
and how does that demonstrate that Gods love and everlasting life are mutually exclusive? is the gift of everlasting life not an expression of Gods love? If not why not?

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
If not then please spare me these petty squabbles about whether the verse is about love or salvation.
You think the difference between Christian conceptualization of God's "love" on one hand and "salvation" on the other is "petty"?

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Originally posted by FMF
You think the difference between Christian conceptualization of God's "love" on one hand and "salvation" on the other is "petty"?
here i will make it easy for you as well. Everlasting life is not an expression of Gods love because. . . . .

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
and how does that demonstrate that Gods love and everlasting life are mutually exclusive? is the gift of everlasting life not an expression of Gods love? If not why not?
According to the verse, does God "love the world" or not? Does it then create a condition for "salvation", or not?

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Originally posted by FMF
You think the difference between Christian conceptualization of God's "love" on one hand and "salvation" on the other is "petty"?
No i think you are petty. I cannot be much clearer than that.