God’s Love: Conditional or Not?
Ensign, Dec. 1971; “To love completely with a wholeness even as Christ loved, to manifest a mature and unconditional love in all human relations, would minimize many fears.” First Presidency Message: “With an Eye Single to His Glory” – Editorial, Elder Ronald E. Poelman
Ensign, Feb. 2003, p. 20; “Understanding that divine love and blessings are not truly ‘unconditional’ can defend us against common fallacies such as these: ‘Since God’s love is unconditional, He will love me regardless…’; or ‘Since ‘God is love,’ He will love me unconditionally, regardless…’ These arguments are used by anti-Christs to woo people with deception.
The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional – predicated upon our obedience to eternal law.” – Russell Nelson, “Divine Love”
Romans 8:38-39; “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Why would the Lord who’s put so much time, effort and energy into giving us life not love us unconditionally?
If you’re a parent you can appreciate unconditional love and how it works. Parents love their children regardless of their actions. The amount of love I have for my daughters isn’t determined on their behavior. And if we’re like this how much more is God’s love for us?
Also – why are their messages to the Mormon people contradictory? Is the anti-Christ within their own leadership? According to the teachings in the latter Ensign they have to be. Yesterday we saw that the God of Mormonism in the Book of Mormon is a spirit but the Doctrine and Covenants refutes this by teaching he’s an exalted man of flesh and bones. How is it possible to worship, love and endear yourself to an entity who can’t be consistently defined? It’s virtually impossible to have any type of relationship with such a god, let alone build a foundation of trust when there’s nothing historically to hold onto.
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