Love the God without Conditions
What Christ Jesus said is put simply to love our God.
Based on this teaching, the religion Christianity was established. It is, however, reasonable for the mankind to love their God, if the God had created this world and the mankind even without the teaching of Christ Jesus.
But if the mankind could not believe that the God exited or if the mankind thought that there was nothing good or meaningful to them even if the God existed, the teaching of Christ Jesus would lose meaning.
A majority of the mankind seem to believe that the God exists. But even the majority seem to be not sure about whether the God would make them happy in this world even if they believed existence of the God. In other world, what is good in believing in the God if the God would not make us happy in this world seems to be what the majority think.
People tend to think that what makes them rich and happy in this world should be respected. But if the God would not make them rich and happy in this world, why should they respect the God?
This wrong attitude and thinking stem from our misunderstanding that what is the most important thing for us is for us to be rich and happy in this world.
Christ Jesus did not put any conditions to his teaching to love the God. If we were not rich and happy and if the God would not make us rich and happy, we should love the God.
It is the God that is important but not human beings. This is the essence in the teaching of Christ Jesus to love the God. But how can we love the God who would not make us rich and happy while He must have such ability? The God seems to be indifferent about our worldly state of being rich and happy. Then, human beings who want to be rich and happy above anything would not in real respect and love the God.
But, nonetheless Christ Jesus told to love the God. And Christianity has developed in these 2000 years to be the major religion of the mankind.
The answer to this question must be that there is a right and legitimate reason for Christ Jesus told us to love the God without conditions, that is, if the God would not immediately make us rich and happy. And many people in the history have had admitted that Christ Jess is right, so that they have thought we have to love the God without conditions.
Perhaps everybody must feel it right what Christ Jesus told, but nobody could clearly explain why. So, Christianity was established, survived, and developed.
It is a mystery from a rational point of view that Christianity has succeeded while Christ Jesus told to love the God without conditions, but if the God created the mankind so as to make them love Him, the mankind must love the God without conditions.
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Ac:1:3: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Ac:1:4: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Ac:1:5: For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.