真的愛,就像真的神,及真的生命,是沒有任何無條件的。
然而,會要求我們盡一切力量去接近、去愛一位我們深深畏懼的神,竟能讓人類相信了幾千年。是該去對「我們所認知的神」提出挑戰的時候了!讓我們聽神談:
聽神談【「愛」和「恐懼」】:2/2
愛存在,沒有任何條件。(Love exists without any conditions.)
真愛是無條件的。有條件的愛根本不是愛,是一個偽造版。真的愛,就像真的神,及真的生命,是無條件。
有條件的愛是一個「自相矛盾詞」(oxymoron,例如:有空氣的真空,或問「陳先生貴姓?」。意思是:說「有條件的愛」,就像說「有空氣的真空」。)。
因為這是真實的,這種「神設置了條件來接受愛」的想法,是行不通的。它是個自相矛盾的說法。然而,這是你們關於昨日之神一直都抱持的想法───要求你們盡一切力量去接近、去愛一位你們深深畏懼的神。
愛與恐懼是相互排斥的。因為愛與恐懼無法同時並存在同一個空間裡。
摘自《重新定義神》第15章
That means that Love exists without any conditions.
True love is unconditional. Love that places conditions is not love at all, but a counterfeit version of it. Real love, like the real God and like real life, knows no conditions.
Conditional Love is an oxymoron.
Because this is true, the idea of a God who places conditions on the receiving of his love is unworkable. It is a contradiction in terms. Yet this is the idea you have had about Yesterday’s God, requiring you to try with all your might to get close to a God of whom you are deeply afraid.
Love and fear are mutually exclusive. Because they cannot exist simultaneously in the same space.