Question:
Why does God offer unconditional love, then give you all the conditions for it?
2011-03-28 00:14:45 UTC
Why does God offer unconditional love, then give you all the conditions for it??

Deuteronomy 6:5
23 answers:
?
2011-03-28 00:25:18 UTC
Man, you guys ask us Christians if we know what we are talking about, then you ask this?



The love God offers is unconditional love for you. He loves you, regardless. The instructions are for you to understand how to live your life. It doesn't mean that you have to do that stuff before God will love you.



Do you think that just because your Mom told you to wash your hands before dinner that if you didn't she would no longer love you? She loves you unconditionally but she would still like you to have clean hands. That does not affect her love for you.



Why do you search so hard to find faults with something as innocent as religion? Does it scare you? Do you secretly believe it is real and are just trying to convince yourself it isn't? If it isn't real then why do you question it all the time?



Man oh man, it must be miserable to be so scared your entire life!
?
2011-03-28 00:34:44 UTC
Where in the Bible did you find the words "unconditional love"?



Those words do not occur together.



But God does love you. He loved you enough to make you. And to give other lives in exchange for yours.



The commands are not negotiating chips for your affection. God has told you what is necessary for you to have a rich, full, eternal life. That's the way to do it. If you choose a path apart from God's way, you will die apart from God.



God does not want that. That is why He has told you the way to Him.
blogdog123
2011-03-28 00:20:35 UTC
Once you graduate from the Old Testament to the New Testament, the only condition is for you to believe that Jesus is Lord. God's love for you is unconditional because he loved you so much that you don't have to follow the "Old Testament" rules anymore. Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection took care of everything else.
2011-03-28 00:29:59 UTC
I think you will find that at no point in the Old Testament does God offer UNCONDITIONAL love.



That is somewhat reasonable.



It's just that his hatred is totally unreasonable. "Either you love me, or I shall murder all of you in a variety of creative ways." I guess he didn't think that fear and love were contradictory in a relationship.



What kind of relationship is that?... Um between a slave girl and her master? If you are into that sort of thing... maybe Judaism and Christianity are for you. The relationship between Jews and their god certainly is kind of like an abusive marriage.
KHAAAAN!
2011-03-28 00:46:26 UTC
The love is unconditional. However, in order to dwell with God one has to have a relationship with Him. Think of it this way, you're a really cool guy, you like everybody and want to be friends with everybody, you just want everybody to get along. There's this guy down the street you walk by every day, you say hi, he just turns his back, says to anybody within ear shot you don't exist, and seems to have actually convinced him that much is true. At some point in time he loses his house and asks if he can move in with you. Do you REALLY want to let him move in? I mean you don't hate him, but he's obviously not roommate material.



Okay, let's say he moves in. You really wanted the companionship and he needs a place to stay, and seems like a good guy despite your rocky relationship in the past. You lay down the ground rules, the conditions he must live by in order for him to remain living with you rent free and freeload. Help himself to the fridge, watch tv, use the internet, etc, whatever makes him happy provided he doesn't do certain things that annoy the very f*cking piss out of you. So he starts doing these irritating things. He apologizes for them and it's evident that he doesn't mean to do the things he does, it's just part of what makes him, well, him, so you let it slide and ignore it, happy to have the company. I mean turns out he's a pretty nice guy, why give him the boot because of slip ups he can't help?



Or say he doesn't apologize, he just keeps doing them because he figures that once you've accepted him into your home that it'll be near impossible to evict him because you live in California or something where eviction is nearly impossible. So now you have these deliberate behaviors done in your home that you have asked this freeloader not to do on pain of eviction, he does it anyway, and makes it abundantly clear that the interests and rights of his roommate aren't even on his mind.



Would you really want to live with the guy? I mean you love him, in the sense you love all of your fellow man, but this guy's just a douche, right? I'd give him the boot, too.



[Add] In the case of Deuteronomy and my example "neighbor guy" let's say he's losing his home to foreclosure because he lost his job, and that is why you're bailing his @ss out. I'd say you're entitled to set a few ground rules if he's gonna move in until he gets back on his feet.
thorpedo12
2011-03-28 00:20:55 UTC
The only condition is that, you have to accept Jesus died for your sins. All the rest about not sinning is for your own good and for the good of the world. Also, he will discipline you and after a while you won't desire to do evil. Don't listen to the Atheists, the only logical explanation they are on her is because they are afraid to believe the truth or they are led by a different spirit.
2016-11-15 08:02:28 UTC
by using fact God is holy, righteous and may be able to no longer enable sin to flow unpunished. God can't even seem upon sin. what variety of God helps human beings to flee with homicide - actually? what variety of God turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to the outrages perpetrated by employing guy upon fellow guy? the place does justice come into it? what variety of a make certain might enable their toddler to run rebellion, do merely as they extremely joyful, and placed themselves into danger? Parental love has to comprise self-discipline and set limits and bounds, in any different case the make certain is shirking their primary jobs. jointly as loving the toddler unconditionally (i.e., the affection does not would desire to be reciprocated), the make certain exerts authority over the toddler till at last the toddler is mature sufficient and in a position to look after itself. God's appropriate justice and God's appropriate mercy met at Calvary. His love is such that "palms that flung stars into area, to merciless nails surendered" (Graham Kendrick music). His love is such that each physique we would desire to do is settle for and say, "thank you". Is that too plenty to invite? sure, God's love is conditional upon accepting his answer to sin. How can that be defined as having too many circumstances linked?
2011-03-28 00:17:40 UTC
Deuteronomy 6:5 - Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.



Your quote has nothing to do with the question.
Truthteller
2011-03-28 00:19:53 UTC
That is not God, but people who have come up with the catchy word "unconditional"; as for the truth, God deals with us exactly according to the law of equity (fairness), but it is up to us to choose, so that in the end we shall receive exactly what we deserve.
Cheshire Cat
2011-03-28 00:18:46 UTC
Because the Hebrews stole most of their ideas about God from polytheists. Things get a little incoherent when you are trying to claim the disjointed rules systems of multiple gods. This is why the God of the Bible seems so schizophrenic.
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2011-03-28 00:18:34 UTC
You're a true Christian up until you are caught sinning.

Christianity lacks a practice.

Dependence on others accomplishes nothing.

If ya want something done ya got to do it yourself.

Meditation is a practice that increases awareness,

that helps identify sin before it has a chance to influence.



The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice

http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/chanmed1.pdf



Powers attained thru Concentration

http://www.buddhanet.net/wings_d.htm



Mind is like Dirty Water, all the moving thoughts are the dirt particles that stir the water of the mind and make it murky, but when you still the mind, the rest of the dirt drops to the bottom, and the water becomes crystal clear, this is the awareness of mind, with a mind like that you can go further than ever before.



The mind is like a weak muscle in the beginning, it can't lift a lot of weight, but with continued practice, it becomes familiar and easier to do, eventually adding more weight to get stronger at what it is doing. The meditation helps increase the awareness of what you are doing so distraction does not tempt you away.



John 3:16 says,

Cause Jesus forgives.

There's no reason to practice Morality.

So being an evil little heathen and believing in Jesus will get ya to heaven. However if you are a good person and don't believe in Jesus you go to Hell.



Only a demon would suggest that,

only an ignorant would believe it.



In the Kalama Sutra, Buddha says.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it..

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.



But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The Former Dr. Bob
2011-03-28 00:18:37 UTC
There aren't conditions.



If you think Deuteronomy 6:5 is conditional, then you're missing something. God desires that we fellowship with him and love him, but his word never says that he won't love us if we don't love him. In fact, it says just the opposite: we love him because he first loved us.



God loves us enough to allow us to do what we want, even if that involves going our own way and turning our backs on him.
Cavaliere
2011-03-28 00:20:02 UTC
Because there is no God...



Edit: "Is God willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able, and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither willing nor able? Then why call him a God?" Quote by Epicurus
2011-03-28 00:25:23 UTC
Because he has a sense of humor.
?
2011-03-28 00:17:13 UTC
ARE YOU HIGH?

READ THE VERSE AGAIN!

Deuteronomy 6:5

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.



IF YOU SPENT HALF THE EFFORT READING THE BIBLE AND TRYING TO FIND GOD INSTEAD OF SPITTING IN HIS FACE, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SHOWN YOURSELF FOR THE FOOL YOU JUST HAVE!
2011-03-28 00:18:30 UTC
Because the bible is fictional literature, but yet believers believe that they have a choice.
motivational_raven
2011-03-28 00:15:57 UTC
When did he offer unconditional love?
2011-03-28 00:23:14 UTC
no one has seen God



Jesus tried -- he found the devil after 40 days

Buddha tried -- he also found the same



all others are like blind -- blind leadeth blind
Herod the Great
2011-03-28 00:15:58 UTC
Because there is no God in the Bible.
2011-03-28 00:15:37 UTC
Because the Bible is a story book.
2011-03-28 00:18:50 UTC
because god doesnt exist in the way you think it does. God really doesnt care.
2011-03-28 00:16:08 UTC
Written by men and edited by fools.
2011-03-28 00:17:45 UTC
Don't you see all the contradictions made by your religion?



Maybe this is a sign that it is all BULLSHIT?


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