The Unconditional Love of God

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BradC

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God's love never fails, it never finds faults, it never thinks evil and it suffers long, it believes and endures all things and is kind. These are some of the unconditional characteristics and qualities of the love of God. If we are filled up with the love of God in our heart by the Spirit, these will be the characteristics and qualities of the love we have toward ourselves and toward others. Unconditional love is the love of God for God is love. The love expressed at the cross was unconditional toward the world of lost sinners not willing that any should perish. God's love is not desensitized by sin or by the works of the flesh. God's love does not change toward any sinner because of their lifestyle but waits to be gracious when conviction is responded to in the heart of the sinner. When a sinner continuously gives place to darkness and they sense rejection from God, it is not the love of God that rejects them but it is the light that rejects the darkness that they are living in. God's love is unconditional but God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. God's light is what offends the darkness and any form of darkness a person may be living in.

As believers, who have the love of God in our hearts and walk in the light, the light we walk in will always reject the darkness but the love we have in our hearts remains unconditional and will never fail, never think evil and will suffer long. This love will not compromise with sin because of the light, but will always be available to accept the sinner who responds to the conviction of the light that shines in the darkness. This love bears all things, hopes all things and believes all things and never fails to do so. Unconditional love from God can not be produced by man but is produced in man by the Spirit. This is the love of God that sent His Son and the love we comprehend with the saints. This is perfect love that casts out all fear and the same love that was commended toward us while we were sinners.
 
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1 Corinthians 13:1-7 ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[SUP]a[/SUP] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[SUP]b[/SUP] 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

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Unconditional love is the only kind of love that comes from God and it the only kind of love that the Holy Spirit sheds abroad in our heart. If we conditionally love anyone, that is not the love of God. If we have the love of God in our hearts we will forgive and be forgiven unconditionally. The main reason that we love God is because He loves us unconditionally. Unconditional love demands nothing nor does it make demands on those who receive it. We freely receive what has freely been given unto us unconditionally. Unconditional love is not a reciprocating love, meaning it does not love those who love them. Unconditional love loves the unlovely, it loves those who use them and even those who persecute them because love bears all things and does not take into account the wrongs done unto it. Love is not easily provoked by others or by circumstances it is put in through the plan of God. Unconditional love makes no demands to be responded to because love is not puffed up. Unconditional love on the cross took the blame of those who were guilty and never complained.
 
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God's love has been put in us by the indwelling Holy Spirit; and the only obstacle to its expressing itself through us is our putting our thoughts and emotions in the way.
 
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Every believer must be taught and have unconditional love practiced toward them so they can have a capacity to love others unconditionally. Legalism is in opposition to unconditional love. Love that goes beyond knowledge is a love that is not conditioned by knowledge through the letter of the law. When a believer falls into the trap of legalism they practice a love toward others that is based upon adjusting to the letter of the law instead of being filled with the love of God through the Spirit of truth. What that means is that adherence to the letter is more important then hearing from God through the Spirit. Unconditional love never condemns the believer for falling short of the letter of the law, instead it ministers an abundance of grace to edify the believer in Christ to build them up. This is the kind of love we have from God that we are to love one another with. Legalism according to the letter kills the believer's capacity to receive the love of God but the Spirit of life gives a capacity to the believer to receive the unconditional love of God in their heart through the Spirit. We know that we have passed from death unto life because we unconditionally love our brother with no reservations, no conditions and with no probation when they fail.
 
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Does sending people to hell come under unconditional love?
 
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ColinCat said:
Does sending people to hell come under unconditional love?
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It falls under righteousness, and involves those who know Him but do not accept his ways.
 
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Viligant_Warrior said:
Since people send themselves to hell, the question is moot.
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Yea, they can't wait. They all bought tickets for it, and would run and jump into it right now, if they could. I wonder why they don't just kill themselves so they can get there right now.
 
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keeth said:
Yea, they can't wait. They all bought tickets for it, and would run and jump into it right now, if they could. I wonder why they don't just kill themselves so they can get there right now.
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Your sarcasm covers up your lack of knowledge. They don't realize they're sending themselves to hell, but it is their life decisions -- or lack thereof in favor of Christ -- that punches that ticket.
 
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Viligant_Warrior said:
Your sarcasm covers up your lack of knowledge. They don't realize they're sending themselves to hell, but it is their life decisions -- or lack thereof in favor of Christ -- that punches that ticket.
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Maybe their like me, and have more sense than to worship a being that would create countless billions of people knowing that He would be tortuously burning most of them in Hell throughout the endless ages of eternity. While telling them He loved them at the same time. Can you tell me what Satan or anyone or thing else has done which is more evil than this? I don't think so.
 
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keeth said:
Maybe their like me, and have more sense than to worship a being that would create countless billions of people knowing that He would be tortuously burning most of them in Hell throughout the endless ages of eternity. While telling them He loved them at the same time. Can you tell me what Satan or anyone or thing else has done which is more evil than this? I don't think so.
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Are you a parent?
 
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Unconditional love is not negated by divine justice.
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Imagine through some freak occurrence, it turns out Ganesh is the one true god.

You've never believed in Ganesh, Ganesh has never revealed himself to you and there was no evidence for you to even consider that he might be real.

Ganesh then sends you to be tortured forever because you didn't believe in him.

Under the circumstances.. Is that divine justice? Would you accept it as fair punishment?
 
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Had to get a new can of this, there seems to be limitless trolling on this forum. 422607_4146710898827_1663826745_n[1].jpg
 
1joseph

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ColinCat said:
Imagine through some freak occurrence, it turns out Ganesh is the one true god.

You've never believed in Ganesh, Ganesh has never revealed himself to you and there was no evidence for you to even consider that he might be real.

Ganesh then sends you to be tortured forever because you didn't believe in him.

Under the circumstances.. Is that divine justice? Would you accept it as fair punishment?
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There is enough evidence that there is a supreme creator. All that is left is to accept it or deny it. Your choice.
 
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The_highwayman said:
Are you a parent?
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I am? No matter how bad either of my children might or could ever get, I will never want to torture them throughout eternity. No one could offend me enough to wish that upon them. Oh yea, that's right, love is not easily offended. I guess that is only for us, not God of course.
 
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