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You Should Love God Unconditionally And Not Just So You Can Go To Heaven
You should love God even if there was no reward in the hereafter. Though I am a Christian, and do believe in God, I sometimes wonder if there really is an afterlife. That part seems a little like a fairy tale. I love God anyway even if there is no afterlife.
 tinseldove  07 Sep 2009 21:06
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I'll agree with us loving God unconditionally IF like any good parent God loves us unconditionally back.
 
 Grenache  08 Sep 2009 03:11
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It quite interesting actually dove lady. If you stand on the banks of the river Nile, over in 'Luxor', look across towards the 'Valley of the Kings', and watch the sun set, you will discern where the Egyptians got the idea of an afterlife. They believed the sun disappeared deep into the ground, behind the Valley. That is why they burried their Kings deep into the ground, with explicit details, depicting their King's journey towards the afterlife, where they would then be gathered up by the sun as it travelled through the darkness, and would be born brand new in the sun, and taken up to the stars the next morning, at sun rise. The sun Ra, was the giver of life!
 
 LordDaniel  07 Sep 2009 21:58
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 That's mighty interesting. I loved learning about the Egyptians even though they kept my Jewish brothers as slaves. Imagine that? 3000 year old Nazis. JK
by  gottfried
 07 Sep 2009 22:54
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Huh? You best believe there is an afterlife, love! I bet the main prize in heaven isn't riches or any other thing we love to fathom. But perhaps the main prize is a direct connection to God's love? So if you love God, the feeling is mutual and enables you and God to have a relationship in heaven.

Tinseldove. I was a teacher's aide one year during a 'woman of god class'. It does sound like a fairy tale doesn't it? I thought that back then. The women adored it. Men are princes. And women are princesses. It's a radical fairy tale and that is why chivalry is important. We are protecting the ladies. Not because ladies are weak, but because it's our duty. Women can be strong too, as well as men be sensitive.

It's just we are princes. And you are a princess.

'm going to stop... I feel soppy and weird and ugh.... Sensitive.
 
 gottfried  07 Sep 2009 21:42
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 Good, I'm glad for what you said. :- )
by  tinseldove
 07 Sep 2009 22:41
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When Jesus said that the main commandment was to love God, it was in response to a trick question regarding what was the worst "sin". The commandment to love God was given as the way to treat people nice as opposed to not doing "bad" things. It was followed by, Love thy neighbor as thyself and the second is like unto the first.

There is no way to love something unless you love it. Anything else is pretend. It doesn't matter what the reason for pretense is.
 
 justsumguy  08 Sep 2009 15:40
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Not if this God doesn't feel the same. I.e., if you don't worship him 24/7 you must burn in hell. You can't get any better unconditional love from a parent than that. :\
 
 moreno  08 Sep 2009 03:27
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