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God could put conditions on His love and force people into Heaven, or conditionally love people and destroy them.
God's unconditional love extends even in allowing a person to suffer for all eternity.
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One doesn't destroy, allow to be destroyed, torture, or allow to be tortured that which one loves.
The Bible promises that God loves ALL his children, and it also promises that God will send most of his children to eternal torture. Yet another reason why the Bible is crap.
God could either conditionally love everybody and send everybody to heaven or conditionally love everybody and kill them all and send them to Hell.
But because his love is unconditional, God loves even those he sends to Hell
What the crap are you talking about?
Please, make up your mind, is love conditional or unconditional?. Because you can't have what Jesus says in the Gospel and the way you picture him. In any way, if he puts conditions, forces or destroys people for conditions not reached, that is no love. That is the typical god from other mythologies. What makes him so special?
Well, fuck me runnin'! No wonder my life has been so fucked...I had the wrong definition of love all along.
Love is a guilt trip! Hellaluja!!!!!1! I sees teh light!
The fundie version of God doesn't give unconditional love. He puts huge conditions on it. You have to worship him, accept His son as your personal savior, and live according to a whole list of rules.
A dog, now that's unconditional love. Does a dog care if you're gay? Does he care if you've had an abortion or refuse to believe Jesus was God's son? Does he care if women wear pants or short skirts? Does he care if you cheat on your wife or husband or believe in evolution? The fundie God could take a lesson from the dog on the meaning of unconditional love.
Unconditional love*
*Conditions apply
Yeah, seriously, as a Christian I have issues with this, but seriously, DIAF. Worst explanation ever.
You tell me that God, in his inmense love for me, will trow me into a lake of fire and make me get poked with pitchforks for all eternity if I don't do as he says; and if I do act as he wishes I get an indistinct vision of clouds, light and eternal asslicking?
YOU SUCK AT MARKETING!
"I love you all, my children!
Ew. Except you."
*squish*
"And you"
*squish*
"You, you, you..."
*squish, squish, squish...*
So under this logic, a parent who has, say a 4-year-old child and the child wants to play with matches, the parent should respect the decision of the child to play with matches out of unconditional love, even if it means the child being killed.
Bottom line: If god truly loves his people, he would never allow anyone to spend eternity in eternal torture. If someone experiences the torments of hell and he/she begs to god to let them into his kingdom but god refuses, god is nothing more than a sadist, and why is a sadist worthy of worship?
In other words, you're just pulling shit out of your ass to try and say there's no contradiction, even though the contradiction proves that either 1. your god isn't real, or 2. your beliefs about him are wrong. There is no logic in taking both views that god is both all-loving and sends people to hell (and the whole "god doesn't send people to hell, people chose to go to hell" argument is bullshit). See, that's how rational people with common sense solve problems, and come to the conclusion that conservative xtianity is bullshit and nonsense.
God does put conditions on his love. Jesus says love me unconditionally, be my slave forever or burn.
There is a psychiatric term for people who torture those they profess to love .
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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