Why do we pretend God is so worthless that he 'hates' and 'loves'
Wouldn't an all-knowing being have far greater emotions than the ones we are currently able to comprehend?
Doe the 'God is love' verse simply mean that love is the closely we can really understand? Do we REALLY know about how God 'feels' about anything?
2006-08-03 13:13:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our human minds are so much smaller than the reality of God that we have to personify God a bit in order to picture Him (or Her) just a little in our minds.
God has revealed Himself to us in the Scriptures in a personified way. There are images of God in the Bible as men (a shepherd, a vineyard owner, a father), women (wisdom herself, the woman who lost the coin), animals (eagles, dove), and even inanimate objects (a rock, a cloud, a burning bush).
If we personify God in a disrespectful way that is against the Scriptures and Judeo-Christian tradition, like "God hates some group of people," then I think it would be a sin.
But most of the time, I think it is okay.
With love in Christ.
2006-08-06 16:45:46 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you're probably right in all that you say - God and his emotions are probably beyond our comprehension. For all that, I don't believe it's a sin to try to personify him in that wa; as people, it's the best that we can do. How could we show him or attempt to understand him any other way? Yes, it's imperfect, but I feel it's on the right track and it's better than nothing.
2006-08-03 13:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by Caritas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe God has deeper emotions than we do. Hate and Love are the only words we can fathom for his emotions. God is more than we could imagine but we have to come up with some words that are simple enough for everyone even a small child can understand.
2006-08-03 13:19:06 · answer #3 · answered by Fallon V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, all of us will agree that God, Jehovah, Yahweh or Allah is one and only one. We do not have any knowledge or first-hand information of what God feels other than what God has allowed to be known unto us. Whatever God has given us, we do not have the right or access to enter God's mind to know more. So let us just accept what God has given us and be thankful that God has always been with us and will always be there for us.
Salam Malaikum, Shalom, Peace.
2006-08-03 13:26:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your argument may be valid when it comes to God the Father, or God the Holy Spirit.
Fortunately, we know Jesus is fully man, even though he never ceased to be fully God.
In his humanity, Jesus experienced joy and sorrow, and the entire range of human emotions. And since Jesus is now enthroned in heaven with the very same (now glorified) body, it only makes sense that he is still capable of being human.
Considering that Jesus is the one who will judge us after we die, it's good to know that he might possess just a little extra human compassion to temper his divine and perfect justice.
It might just make the difference between someone going to heaven or to hell.
I'm comfortable with that. I think God is too. Jesus, I mean. No one knows if terms like "comfortable" apply to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
2006-08-03 13:42:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋