Monday School: God’s Unconditional Love?
It’s time again for Monday School! Still the Rational Corrective To All That Nonsense They Tried To Teach You Yesterday!
To be honest, I wasn’t going to post a Monday School today. I had a lot of things going on this week and with Tiff tomorrow, but I attended the first group meeting of the fall tonight and someone said something stupid that got me thinking and then bang: I have a theme for Monday School.
During my group meeting (for those who are separated/divorced) someone made a statement that God’s love is unconditional. I didn’t respond to the statement itself, but it got me thinking whether or not that is really true.
So that will be today’s lesson: Is God’s love really unconditional?
Just to get right into it, I will state that God’s love, or the love of an alleged God has never been unconditional. There have always been strings attached to anything God has offered or alledged to have offered mankind, even his love. We all know that the bible is filled with rules, regulations, commandments and we are all expected to follow them or will will not receive God’s love. Rather than speculate about that, let’s consult the alledged good book and find out:
“IF ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;” (John 15:10)
“If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my father will love him,” (John 14:23)
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: And he that loveth me shall be loved of my father…” (John 14:21)
I don’t know about you guys, but those sound like conditions to me. If you are evil, a sinner or break any of the commandments… not only will you not get God’s love, you might get his wrath as well. That doesn’t meet what I consider anyone’s definiton of unconditional love.
For those who are going to get high and mighty about the Old Testament, things are no different for the New Testament either. On of the biggest conditions that Jesus himself makes in order to receive his love is to belive and to accept him as the savior. If you don’t do that, you don’t get no love from JC, and that my friends is not unconditional.
There are many people who assume that the love of both God and Jesus is unconditional, but that is a clearly false assumption. There are countless conditions, one of them to be an obiedient and silent slave to the mythology of unproven dieties. That is the biggest condition of all, to be ordered to believe something when there is no evidence to even suggest that any of exists in the first place!
If you think that your God loves you unconditionally, you had better check the fine print because there are a lot of strings attached to getting the love of any diety within any organized religion. Do you feel that unconditional love when the collection plate comes around? Do you feel it when you are told not to do something because it might be offensive to God? These are all conditions being placed on you by people who want to use you to further their own gains. This is not love by any stretch of the imagination, it’s a con and you are the victim.
One of many reasons why I reject orgnaized religion and their false Gods…
Peter