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Love does not feel hurt. It does not know pain, it does not have limits or exceptions. It is unconditional.
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You live in a different world than me. All that humans do is in relationship to suffering. Love can experience pain and fear. It doesn't have to, but the relationship of love to suffering and fear remains. You're probably of the mind that humans also have eternal spirits, I would imagine... or believe somehow in our relationship to eternity. I could be wrong, but I assume that out of your belief in being connected to all of existence that you feel this isn't a temporary thing. Not to say that I entirely disagree, but I think that death is final when it comes to the individual. The impermance of all relationships, and, in fact, everything creates suffering and simultaneously gives meaning to what we do love. If everything was simply given to us, we could not appreciate it fully. The difficulty is that people hold on too tightly. I don't have an ideal of love; I used to, but it just doesn't take into account human behavior from what I've seen over and over and over again. I don't see anything of life as transcendent, we are grounded in our existence.
I recognize the story of Abraham as being man-written, but I certainly have no access to what God would and wouldn't do - again, because I don't have any access to that.