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Unconditional love

Unconditional love

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Sure, but having a mutually loving relationship DOES have conditions.

You cannot force another to love you back even though you may love them.

So how would you feel if your child became someone evil like Hitler?


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God is love, yes,
Are there any other traits that also go along with God?
Holy, Just, Righteous and Good are also traits that God is as well correct?
We can agree on these too?

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By human standards God's live is conditional. Get over it.



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The truth is often that way: Black and white...right to the point.

Most are going to hell. How can anyone go to jail if God loves them?


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If God is never changing which I believe we both also agree with, then at no point
can God be anything other than what God is.
So God is love, yes.
God is good, yes.
God is just, yes
God is who He is, and will act in ways that agree with all of His traits!
He will never act in a way that not love, good, just, so every attribute is always satisfied
at all times, since He never changes.

Can we agree on these points?

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Lol it is God that convinces. Those who God is unwilling to convince will suffer the consequences.


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If humans are capable of unconditional love (which I believe they are, irrespective of theistic outlook) then it 'has' to be the case that humans are capable of altruism.

Take the father who runs into a burning building to save his child. This act is both a demonstration of unconditional love and altruism.

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Unconditional love means letting the one you love do what he has to do.

Unconditional love means that the one you love doesn't have to do anything to deserve love.

The paradigm case is that of a new mother and her suckling. The babe doesn't have to do anything to deserve to be loved; the mother just loves it, even when it does what it has to do: barfing on her shoulder and poo-ing its diaper.

Unconditional love does not mean that parents must accept everything that their child does, such as lying, cheating, stealing. It would be irresponsible of parents not to prepare their child for adult life in society, where laws and rules and moral principles apply, and this will involve corrective measures (possibly but not necessarily including some form of chastisement, depending on the cooperativeness of the child).

Now, try to keep on loving that child when it's 18 and poos its life. That's when it gets tough. But it is possible.

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Yes, I agree, even though I'm not a parent, I have been the child of wonderful parents who did not deserve all the gray hair I gave them.