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It's the best thing you can ask for everyday as finite beings to an infinite God. It warrants us freedom to communicate with God despite us being sinners, it gives us what we need - our daily bread so to speak, and it just gives you peace ultimately. Ever read Philip Yancey's book? One of my favorites
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hahaha. that's funny. Which denomination would that be? Are there two Christian denominations that love each other unconditionally? While we are good at spouting out the jargon...God loves is unconditional...The Church (for that read my particular denomination) is the mystical body of Christ....but the great w***e of Babylon (my own denomination apparently!) and her adherents(my lovely family included) are the spawn(such a descriptive word !) of Satan. All very well and good blabbering off about God's love being unconditional but it doesn't really do it for me here.Not really. Almost every religion under the sun has as its basis the Golden Rule. That means that our love should be unconditional. That according to Christ as well as all the other great Teachers is what God expects. So what if God's love is unconditional? That's not the point surely? That's His/Her buisness. Our buisness is that our love be just as big. We have some job to do in catching up with the other religions on this one...or we might just get a bit of a surprise when we hear the word's "I was of a different denomination and you despised me....I was of a different religion and you condemned me to eternal damnation...I was depraved...and you brutally rejected me etc etc .Love loves itself unconditionally...that's how it works.
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Where to start... First off you should probably study those other religions a bit deeper before making such sweeping statements. Secondly your statement implies that God is susceptible to changes of personality. To me God is an unknowable essence far removed from the vagaries of human life and as such is above such concepts as change or stagnation. He is the source of all that is and has ever been. And as such God has always been unconditional in His love before and after Christ. My religion, the Bahá'í Faith, teaches that Gods love is unconditional but it also teaches that we can choose whether we receive that love or not and we do this by our actions (essentially the same concept as in the religions you mentioned). I believe in the divinity of Christ but I feel that this line of thought - i.e. He's the best screw the rest - is a misinterpretation. Now lets take a short look at the crucifixion story. This seems to be the basis of many Christians faith without regard to the rest of the Gospels. Christ knew from the start that He would be crucified and this means that the sacrifice had already been made at the beginning. He could have easily avoided it but He didn't. Why! I really wish people would think more about this, Why did Christ go on despite His foreknowledge? It is because He had a Message to bear and it is that Message which is the source of salvation not the mere fact John Smith suddenly realizes that Christ died for us. Read the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5:1-7:27) - salvation takes work! Okay, tirade over :P Much love
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My understanding of the Eight-fold path is that its purpose in enlightenment NOT approval. Buddha is not a God-figure, and Buddhists do not seek approval from Buddha. I don't believe Christianity is the only religion to make God's love unconditional. For example, I'm aware of several Native American teachings which imply unconditionality. God's grace--well, I have difficulty putting it into words, but I think of it as love gifts, little ways God reminds us how very much he loves us, warts and all.
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I don't believe God's love to man is "unconditional". Let's go back a few decades and visit Auschwitz. Let's picture in our minds people burning alive. As we smell the burning flesh in the air, let's ask ourselves if God's love to Hitler was unconditional at that moment. God's love to man is not unconditional. A man must love God first before God's love can reach that man.
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ACTUALLY- the god of christianity DOES NOT love all. he hates gays, sinners, people who own SUV's, denise richards, jews in the media and children born to unmarried couples *from the King James version
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unconditional love make for spoiled followers see: historical christian blasphemies
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