The Testament of God or a Testament of Love

[Fool]

if one exchanges the word god for it's synonym love in the old and new testament, would it make sense? if love could make sense? metaphorically?

take it to heart?

Deuteronomy 6:4

1 John 4:7-12

 

[an anarchist]

Now now I don't necessarily disagree that "God is Love". But the God of the OT? No way.

I'm gonna paraphrase
"Love flooded the earth and drowned nearly everything within"
"Love commands that you leave no Amalekites alive (even their babies you have to kill!)"
Stuff like that

I don't think it works.

 

[Fool]

Now now I don't necessarily disagree that "God is Love". But the God of the OT? No way.

I'm gonna paraphrase
"Love flooded the earth and drowned nearly everything within"
"Love commands that you leave no Amalekites alive (even their babies you have to kill!)"
Stuff like that

I don't think it works.

unfortunately you have a filter/lens through which that love was being diffused. Like some today who distort love for their own selfish wants. uncondtional only becomes conditional when applied differently and not consistently

 

[osgart]

Unconditional love only applies to those incapable of willful violation, willful harmful crime, and anything willfully evil.

Unconditional love is for the innocent. There's no legitimate law against innocence. Innocence is that life that never ever has malicious intent.

Mercy and forbearance for that mercy otoh, is based on a condition of genuine repentance to enter into love. That's because innocence cannot coexist with enemies of such innocence.

In Judaism, Islam, and Christianity love is based on conditions of accepting specific things for mercy.