About hope, it is a desired expectation, yet on an unconditional stance all hope leads to contentment. One can be content will all things by accepting all conditions, hence, unconditionality. Philippians 4:11-13.
there's not one thing here about hope:
Php 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
Paul speaks of what he is able to live through without disappointment hence content to experience circumstances comfortable or suffering because of the Lord's strength, and that would be because he is serving the cause in Christ, and content to suffer such things for that reason. where can you possibly get hope in this? there is plenty of scripture on hope how come you didn't quote them? or could that be because it would prove you incorrect?
There are many verses about unconditional love.
where! where does it say in scripture that God's love is unconditional?
God sacrificed his only Son for us. Love your enemies.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
But I feel that you already know these verses. So what is causing you to be so cynical?
Have you got a better, fruitful, opinion?
it is true that Charity is all that Paul says it is:
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become
as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have
the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed
the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long,
and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether
there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether
there be tongues, they shall cease; whether
there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
but these things of God are not given unconditionally. God doesn't give His Word unconditionally and one is received into His Love through His Word, which is a condition. again such as repent, faithful till the end, so on and so forth. God isn't a fool who irrationally does and gives, especially that which He values, as you say He does.
just because God's love is Great doesn't mean its without conditions.
oh yea love your enemy, lets put that in context:
Mat 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more
than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
hence to treat others as you would be treated or love thy neighbor as thyself, even if they are your enemy. where is the unconditional love fall in here? the taught way back in Moses' day that a stranger within there land is to be treated the same by law as they. if you have a prisoner of war shouldn't he be treated as you would want to be treated if the shoe was on the other foot? again you don't have love someone unconditionally to treat them in a up-right manor. actually its usually because none loves the Ways of the Lord more, in this case.