Conditional Vs Unconditional Love of God
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” - 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 CONTRADICTION You may have read this verse thousands of times before. Especially on wedding cards and forwarded messages and your WhatsApp groups. You may have even tried applying these aspects of loving yourself If not all, at least some of them. And then you realize, you (all of humanity) are incapable of loving with all or even one of these qualities. Then you realize that only God is qualified to love " unconditionally" . But is God's love really unconditional? Especially, when the Bible quite blatantly talks about " reciprocation " . But if we...