What stake in doing good would many have if they felt they didn't have to be governed in any way because they would receive "unconditional love" no matter what they did?
Dunno. Ask Mother Theresa.
The Myth of Unconditional Love
by frankiespeakin 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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willyloman
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frankiespeakin
My personal opinion is that when someone proclaims they have "unconditional" love for some one they are just tooting thier own horn, or they have a limited understanding of what the word unconditional means.
We can have a variety of meanings we give to the word love, that can be argued over,,but "unconditional" is another story,,unconditional mean with out any conditions, unless one uses the word flipantly without understanding the absolute nature the word implies.
For example why do we love our children is it not because they are our children? Isn't that a condition or prerequisite? Would we love them if they were not our children and we just met them and they were behaving badly? Or,,what if they anger us because of some they said or did do we love them the same as we did before? Or is it lessened according or in proportion to the offense? If our child, (god forbid) should every commit a gross act of extreme cruelty would our love deminish to some degree for that child if it did we would no longer be able to lay claim to the qualifier "unconditional". Also if we loved one child more than any one of our children then that would itself give evidence of our love not being of the unconditional type. I could go on and on with many other examples,,but these should be sufficiant for the point, that when a person proclaims "unconditional" love they either don't know what unconditional means or they are simply tooting thier own horn.
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frankiespeakin
When we criticize say a group like the JWs for thier very conditional love and proclaim our love to be of the "unconditional" variety we are not really correct. I think it's more accurate to be critical of this very "conditional" love but refrain from the boast that our love is "unconditional" and instead recognize that our's is also, but that the conditions are much less and more reasonable,,and less demanding. But even here modesty should caution us not to let our boasts be too grandeous.