Sixth Sunday of Easter

conditional or unconditional love

is God love con or uncon?

Where looking at

6 or 9 drawn, one or other, but perspective can make it LOOK like the other

get to author

have to look at next to it

e.g. other numbers next to it

what side drawn from

why a number would be there

so it is with God’s love

condition or uncond depending on perspective, but truly it is one or the other

get to author

God love is light

one constant beam, but receiver bends it

clear glass or solid concrete

perspective

shinning on us looks conditional because what want with it

angels saved demons doomed

shinning from God looks unconditional because shines on all

Scripture Church clearly teach: God wills all saved.

So which perspective is deceptive and which perspective sees clearly? uncon or con?

obviously right perspec God’s side, from the side of truth itself, the author of the love

God’s love is unconditional, for it shines on all

God loved us even when we were sinners,

doesnt change

unchanging love is the same love that damns or saves by let it shine on us

because God loves sinners wills their Good: which is the total annihilation of our sins (the bad in us)

to want someone’s good is to not want them to have bad

doesnt force to reject sin

so since its good for our sins to be destroyed he will accomplish this, whether this means salvation or not depends on where we ultimately choose to be: in our sin or in Him, for he will not force us to love back

only change and conditional us, not Him and His love

our perspective mistakenly think His love conditional rather than our free choice.

Gospel today

IF you love me keep my commandments..Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me

clear glass or concrete

love and so accept or reject the light?

But how can love of God be following commandments?

love isnt a feeling (bears repeating in this age)

they help or harm love

love means to will

to love God is to will the Good

to will good is to follow commandments

so to love God means to follow the commandments

if choose not to love God we choose to cloud his unconditional love out of our life

love is an intentional act

an intention of love not really acted on when we have the chance is no intention at all

Desire good that never act on makes us more evil, not less, because had the desire for good and rejected it!

the path to hell is paved with unacted on good intentions

the commandments are nothing other than acted on loving intention: willing the actual good.

not mere niceness (sometimes harsh)

not mere pleasure (sometimes painful POINT cross)

but God Himself, the Good

Yes, we’re Unconditional loved, but conditionally received.

The light, since it is unconditional is likewise unstoppable.

it has no conditions

Since the light of his love is indomitable, guiding and allowing absolutely everything for the good (even when hidden), if we live in it and not against it, what could possibly destroy our peace even if we find ourselves hanging upon the cross of his unconditional love?

Notes

me

conditional love

verses that confirm:

final judgment

vine later on

if no fruit cut off and thrown to fire

keep commandments and comforter given

paraklaetos needed to get what need, but given on condition

body to soul (keep command to intention to love God)

in space, limited, defined vs no space, unlimited, undefined

Commentators

‘paraklaetos’ -one called from/in. Fairly literally like a personal advocate/ personal lawyer b4 God

Chrysostom

grants prays IF keep commandments

to love him “is not to be troubled”

requires love shown by works

Gregory

HS inkindles love of invisible over visible

Augustine

Lovers of world cant receive HS

Alcuin

priviledged state only to one who loves (keeps command)