The love of many (not all, and perhaps not most) Christians is short-lived since it models the love of the false god (of many, if not most).
It’s short-lived because it’s conditional. Yet, it’s the way they are supposed to love. Their false god loves that way, so they should too.
They say they love as they persuade others to believe as they do. This love purportedly prevents souls from entering Hell. They’re rushing into a burning building and pulling people out of the fire before it’s too late.
Supposedly, God already did his part to save their souls on the cross. Now the Christian must also do his part in all boldness.
Yes, the blood of Christ alone doesn’t cut it. Rather than the gift of salvation as the gift of God alone, salvation becomes the gift of God and his human messenger in tandem.
Conditional unconditional love
In essence, many Christians love as their god loves. They are to give conditional unconditional love. That sounds strange, even contradictory. That’s because it is. It’s downright dishonest quite frankly.
Much of Christian evangelization labels the love of their god as unconditional. Ironically though, they evangelize to keep their fickle god from dumping souls into the eternal lake of fire. Little do they realize that if their god’s love is unconditional, there would be no lake of fire.
Their mission here is to convince others to “accept God’s free gift.” They willfully misrepresent it as a free gift to make it palatable, or, in other words, unconditional.
In my opinion, advertising it as unconditional falls in line with the traditional marketing practices we’ve grown to accept as valid within western culture. Spotting contradictions rather than the happy face on the packaging must be frowned upon, and cheap accusations of cynicism are strongly encouraged.
Ascribing human love to God’s love
An objection here may be that I’m expecting God not to administer justice to the wrongdoer. So be it. But I object to this deception that God’s love is unconditional as long conditions x, y, z are met.
Be honest. Do away with the cheap marketing tricks you learned from advertisers and politicians. You know, the tricks that harass us incessantly and attempt to break our wallets for your ”non-profit” schemes; the tactics you learned from those ministry seminars common in your industry.
Hey, preacher man. Can’t we have a genuine relationship with the Creator without your forced distortions?
I could argue here that God imperfectly loves conditionally unconditionally, and many Christians simply emulate that. Honestly, God is falsely portrayed that way periodically in the canon of scripture.
I doubt, though, that’s the way an omnibenevolent being would love. Instead, it’s more likely that many Christians ascribe the imperfect love of fallen humanity onto God since unconditional love is simply unfathomable.
Contemplate perfect love, and apply it in weakness
Rather than striving to emulate perfect, unconditional love, something many Christians loathe since it requires hard work rather than cheap grace, we see many Christians default to the tribalistic behavior we share with other animals.
To avoid accusations of tribalism, we often hear the dishonest counterclaim to unity. In turn, many Christians excuse themselves when they emulate this conditional unconditional love of their false god by repeatedly ostracizing those who fail to conform to their message.
But hey, our ways are not God’s ways. These worshippers of the false god with all his human frailties must understand something I don’t.
I mean, violating the law of noncontradiction is incomprehensible, but who are we to question conditional unconditional love? After all, he is the potter. We are the brainless clay.
Wait a minute! Didn’t he give us a brain along with the ability to reason and strive to advance beyond our animal nature?
Oh well. Just be godlike; I.e., the perfect being that loves imperfectly, or, more specifically, the one who loves conditionally unconditionally. Stop asking questions. If 1+1=3, then so be it.
And they’ll know we are Christians by our conditional unconditional love!