I love a good George Straight song and one of his many hits begins like this:
"Our love is unconditional
we knew it from the start
I see it in your eyes
you can feel it from my heart
from here on after
we'll stay the way we are right now
and share all the love and laughter
that a lifetime will allow"
Doesn't that sound so good? So romantic, I can see the women swooning now. Ahhhh! Unconditional Love!!
Well, George Straight may have unconditional love but when you try to pin that title on God you better be careful. If you believe that you can follow God and then do anything you please and expect Him to sing you a verse from this song you've got another thing coming.
I saw this very suggestion on a church sign just down the road from my house. It said that "God's love is unconditional". What a bunch of baloney. How can Christians be so stupid?
Well, its because the have never read or studied the Bible for themselves. They just trust some dunderhead that believes God's love is "unconditional" to read it for them. In other words, they really don't care, do they?
Just think about what unconditional love means anyway. It doesn't just mean He will never leave you or forsake you. It means that you can do anything you darn well please, at any time and there God will be just sitting there waiting to accept you back. You don't even have to repent, just come back to God with your "get out of jail free" card and everything will be ok.
In fact, even if you die you have nothing to worry about. You got to enjoy your life, have fun, party and do what ever you wanted and then God just says come on in to glory. Sorry, folks its not going to happen that way.
I'll quote just a few references to prove my point. This really isn't difficult because all I have to do is show one instance where God places conditions on a relationship and that proves that He DOES have conditions for those who would desire His love.
Here we go:
Deuteronomy 8:20 "As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God."
Well this looks like a condition to me folks. Let's see here, these people (Israel) are going to perish because they wouldn't do what God said to do. Yep, that's a condition! Do what God says or perish. Yikes!
Now, just because you don't like what it says doesn't negate the fact that God does install conditions on His love. He doesn't just dole it out to anyone. Let's do one more.
2nd Chronicles 24:20 "And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you."
This easier than shooting fish in a barrel. It says plainly that if you forsake the LORD, He will forsake you. NEXT!!
Isn't it hard to believe how many people are fooled today into thinking that God's love is unconditional. All those idiots out there believe that they can do no wrong. They never feel the need to repent because they believe "God's love is unconditional". Unbelievable.
Oh, but you are only reading from the old testament, you may say... (I may say you are a dunderhead for mentioning that but ok...) Let's do a new testament verse and then I'm done...
Mark 16:16 "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."
Yawn... Do you need it any more plain than that? Here the Bible tells us if we believe not, then we are damned. It is as simple as that!
I suggest you start reading God's word for yourself. If you fell for this clap trap of false doctrine its no telling what other nonsense you are believing.
Something this simple should never have grown in popularity to the point that an ignorant church would place it on their outside sign but that is what we see in our world today.
Man o man are we in trouble...
