God is not Love

Christians widely proclaim that "God is Love".

This always stuck me as a very curious statement, and my immediate question is always: what do you mean by "love" in this statement?

We know what love means, and the best example is the love of a mother for her child. That mother will literally dive into a raging flood to help her child. That mother would stop at literally nothing to protect her child from harm. A loving parent will literally starve to feed their baby.

The stories in the bible about God simply don't reflect love in this way. Whatever Christians mean by love, they don't mean the kind of love that a parent shows to their child.

The Christian concept of a loving God does not meet the standard and reasonable definition of love that is reasonably based on human experience.

Tough Love

Love must not just be promised but love must be consistently, fairly and predictably demonstrated in real life.

The belief in the Christian concept of love requires faith in religious doctrine because it is not clearly based on empirical evidence or experience that is demonstrated consistently.

Comments

as long as anyone buys into the idea of eternal conscious torment, that whole "love" thing is flushed right down the tubes anyway. Speaking of the love of a parent, the human ones whom would literally take their place in Hell rather than allow their child to suffer that way.

I think you are saying that any being that loved a person would never let them go to hell. I agree. An eternity of torture is never justified by any amount of lifelong bad behavior. But most (mature) Christians say that hell is not torture but "separation from God" and that it is self imposed by refusal to believe in God.

You are right, a human mother would literally go to hell to just comfort their child (that is also in hell). God simply does not do this.