Conditional love Vs Unconditional love

by highdose 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  tec

  In my experience, there are a couple of different kinds of love (even within one person for another person). I'll use the two loves that I have for my husband as an example.

  My love for him as a father/husband/lover/friend is conditional. I could fall 'out' of love with him if our values became so different that they caused us to be in conflict/anger/pain all the time. However, underneath that love is a second love... one that I have for him as a fellow human being - and this brotherly love is more compassionate, forgiving and kind than the first. The first kind of love can and does fail; the second kind not so much... and so it is this second love that is unconditional.

  Tammy
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  PSacramento

  I don't think we, in general, are capable of true unconditional love, our human nature doesn't really mesh well with that.

  We always put conditions are everything, though we don't like it when others put conditions on us, LOL!

  I think we can come very close and that some come closer than others and that a few that are indeed special can love with no conditions whatsoever.

  I think that it is more of an ideal to strive for some, but I don't think you can actually, conciously, get there, especalliy of you are trying.

  I once read that God created us in "his" image and that the true revelation of that image is unconditional love and that when we get there ( when we love unconditionally) is when we are truly the "image of God" as Jesus was, hence Jesus's little hinst about how we shoudl behave: Love each other, love your enemies, etc.