The question is:
Does God love us without conditions?
Is God’s love unconditional?
Keep in mind the word if. If sets up conditions.
Do you have a scripture that says God love us unconditionally?
He sends the rain and sunshine on both the just and the unjust. That sounds unconditional.
It also says that He both gives and withholds the rain under certain conditions which we meet. God will use the weather as both a blessing or a curse, depending on our attitudes and actions. That would be conditional.
What are some conditions that will provoke God to adverse actions toward us?
Continued murmuring and complaining without sorrowful repentance. Any sin which we knowingly continue in, without our striving against, with all the strength of our hearts, to the point of drawing blood. Like Jesus and Paul said, even if we have to cut off our right hand or pluck out our right eye!
What are some conditions which God will bless us for.
Respecting Him with heart-felt faith, lived out in obedience to Him. And respecting Him, by obeying Him because of our faith in Him, this is our love pointed towards Him. These are the conditions we must meet, that He promises to bless us for.
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Is God’s Love merely indiscriminate actions He does without regard to what we do? That would be unconditional love.
Or is His Love something that He feels and then acts on, as He responds to our heartfelt actions? That would be conditional love.
If you could picture the best Father in the world, who had 2 sons. One son was usually kind to others, went out of his way to help others, even people who were grumpy and offensive. And he treated all people fairly, was loving, and he was respectful and thankful to his father. This son was responsible with everything his father gave him to do.
Say this father’s other son was the opposite of this. He was never thankful, but was always inconsiderate of others, was disrespectful towards all even towards his fathers kindness to him, treated people unjustly and never helped anyone, but instead was a liar, a thief and would kill anyone to get what he wanted. And he continued in this way without regard to any of his father’s warnings.
How would the father love them? Would it be right to treat one the same as the other? Would it even be loving to treat them the same?
I can see where the father might pardon the son’s offenses out of love. Where he might give the unrighteous son favor he doesn’t deserve. Where he wants the son to repent and change his ways. But a wise father will treat his sons differently according to the son’s attitude and behavior. A wise father would send the unrighteous son, described above, out of his household, hoping life out there will teach him to be different. But he should not continue to treat him the same as his righteous son.
If you read more than the few portions in God’s word that most people do, and if you listen to the whole counsel of God, you will find that God has the desire of Love that all would repent and believe and live the Gospel. But there are also things that God hates. And He will react to things He hates with retribution. He hates many things. Hate is a disgust and dislike of something to where you push it away from you. Read Revelation 3:14-22 where God says that He will spit out or vomit up those in the Laodicean Church because they are lukewarm. That’s an action of hate. He goes on to say, that to those whom I love, I reprove and discipline… Hhmmm, here God’s love sounds a little conditional to me. He discriminates between people He loves and those He doesn’t, by how he treats them.
How about; Jacob I loved, Esau I hated.
Read the book of Proverbs and find out how many things God hates.
Read Rev 2:23 where God says that He will kill people who would not repent and will give to each one according to their deeds. Something Jesus said over and over, but many of todays preachers don’t seem to mention.