Doesn't that mean He's not omnscient if He has feelings? The only way you can have a feeling is if you're surprised by something...butif God knows everything, how can He have feelings?
2006-09-15 13:24:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You missed the all powerful part didn't you?
2006-09-15 13:38:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's put it in simpler terms. A parent knows that if they leave a plate of cookies on the table and a 5 year old in the room with the plate while they are gone that the child will get into the cookies. Now the parent knows this but does it anyway. The parent is mad when they come back to find the crumbs, even just a few crumbs. This is because they expected what they knew was not within the child's ability and that the child even though they were given the opportunity to resist, caved to the cookies anyway. However, I don't believe that God gets angry, He gets prepared for judgment. You, as the children, are racking up points on the old judgment meter. So say the Christians Ta-Dah
2006-09-15 13:31:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Exactly. This idea of God is childish and poorly thought out. Just like the idea of sin.
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.
Love and blessings
don
Source --- Course in miracles
2006-09-15 13:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're correct, it can't.
"A God who knows everything cannot have emotions. The Bible says that God experiences all of the emotions of humans, including anger, sadness, and happiness. We humans experience emotions as a result of new knowledge. A man who had formerly been ignorant of his wife's infidelity will experience the emotions of anger and sadness only after he has learned what had previously been hidden. In contrast, the omniscient God is ignorant of nothing. Nothing is hidden from him, nothing new may be revealed to him, so there is no gained knowledge to which he may emotively react.
We humans experience anger and frustration when something is wrong which we cannot fix. The perfect, omnipotent God, however, can fix anything. Humans experience longing for things we lack. The perfect God lacks nothing. An omniscient, omnipotent, and perfect God who experiences emotion is impossible."
2006-09-15 13:31:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If God were truly omniscient, then God would have empathy. Empathy, the trait of feeling with another person, knowing the feeling, would give God the full range of feelings or emotions. Empathy is a higher level emotion or state of consciousness. Some people never acquire empathy.
2006-09-15 13:32:19 · answer #5 · answered by Magic One 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha! of direction He knew that the Bible in 2007 will sound extraordinary. it incredibly is why there's a selection of sixty six books interior the Bible. in case you don't get one, in line with possibility you get the different. all of them talk with regard to the comparable component. BTW... the slavery and the wars, and how women folk have been dealt with, wasn't God's thought or doing, it fairly is crystal sparkling adult males did it. God sent His Son, and rescued a prostitute from being killed via the mob. that would desire to supply you a concept approximately God's view. yet... hmmm, some human beings can examine the full Bible and not in any respect get it. remember, each and every e book of the Bible grew to become into written with a undeniable purpose. you hit upon the substantial, you already know the e book. do not examine the Bible until eventually you want to liberate the code. Or, examine it.. possibly even you will get it, sometime!
2016-12-15 08:41:39 · answer #6 · answered by zufelt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has the occasional bad day. Maybe he just doesn't like you. What does omniscience have to do with emotions? Is god a Vulcan?
2006-09-15 13:27:38 · answer #7 · answered by Dane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make absolutely no sense. Is love a surprise? Is sleepiness a surprise. How did you get to the juncture of omnicient meaning lack of feelings. Where does it say that in Webster's?
2006-09-15 13:27:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know that a person can only have feelings as the result of a surprise. If one of your parents had died of a degenerative disease, you still would feel something at the funeral, I think, even though you knew the death was coming.
2006-09-15 13:27:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In studying the Bible you find that God speaks to us as humans because Isa 55 tells us that the human mind cannot comprehend God or His ways or His thoughts. Much of the
Bible therefore is anthropomorphic (written in human terms) so that we can make sense of it.
8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.
2006-09-15 13:30:23 · answer #10 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Omniscience does not mean absence of feelings.
You can know that a criminal is going to commit a crime, and still be angry at the harm he inflicts.
Cordially,
John
2006-09-15 13:26:58 · answer #11 · answered by John 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋