Transactional system or concepts are concepts, relating to the conducting of business, especially buying or selling. They are also concepts relating to exchange or interaction between people.
True relationships based on love are not transactional in nature, however relationships based on Employer/Employee, Master/Servant, and Service provider/Service user, are transactional in nature. A father/son relationship, or true friendship is not transactional in nature. Just as a true loving relationship is qualitative and not quantitative in nature. There is no such thing as 50/50 love, because that is an attempt to quantify love.
Any relationship that is based on reward and or recompense, is transactional in nature. Implying that the more effort you put in, the more reward you get. This is a contradiction of the parable of the prodigal son, and that of workers hired at different times of the day for a day’s job, with all receiving the same wages. These parables were told by Jesus Christ as metaphors for the Kingdom of God, meaning that being part of His Kingdom, is not by the effort or input of the individual, and is certainly not transactional, but by the King choosing those that He forms a loving relationship with.
The real servants or messengers of God are not human (Acts 17:24-28), therefore people who perceive themselves to be in a Master/servant transactional relationship with God are contradicting that text from the Bible, while those in a true relationship with God, have a feedback (religious expression for the ‘feedback’ is called faith) from the One with whom they have a relationship, which is not transactional, and neither is it quantifiable.
