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Example: God loves...then the deity takes on characteristics of an emotion that is subject to a beginning and an end, thus impermanent and not God. God must be perfect, thus inmutable, for it to be a supreme being.

2007-03-27 09:54:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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I agree with your statement
My reason is that we live in a finite universe,that one day did not exist and some time in the future it will cease to exist.
It will enter a state of eternal nothing.
An incident that will never happen again.

2007-03-27 13:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0 0

When it comes to describing God, humans should be very careful. Saying that "God is love" does not make him impermanent or mortal. If the Bible says, "For God so loved...", who are we, in our limited understanding, to question God. The Bible says that God is the "Great I am". We are God's creatures. Can we describe God? Does God think as we do? Of course, not. Are you capable of creating by saying, "Let it be?"

God is. That's all there is to it. He had no beginning. He has no end.

God really exercises all the affections ascribed to him in the Bible. This must be so from the very laws of his being.
The Bible ascribes love, hatred, anger, repentance, grief, compassion, indignation, abhorrence, patience, long-suffering, joy and every other affection and emotion of a moral being, to God. Upon these scriptures, I remark,
He must feel, or he is not virtuous. Virtue cannot consist in the mere abstractions of the intellect, but belongs to the heart. And an intellect without moral feeling cannot be virtuous.He must feel towards every thing according to its nature or character or he is not virtuous. He is able to consider, at one and the same time, the nature and character of all events, and being infinite, is able to feel towards every thing in existence, precisely according to its nature, character, and relations.

2007-03-29 05:54:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

What makes you think an emotion comes to an end? Who said it is subject to a beginning and an end? who made up that law? God LOOKED and he saw it was good. is that a verb? the word LOOKED? God WALKED in the garden with Adam......Oh Oh another verb Rephrase your question or, is it hypothetical/

2007-03-28 05:27:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

How does love end???? Begin??? If love is given freely and unconditionally, then it can not have beginning nor an end. It just is.
Is not god's love unconditional? Is it not given to the greatest of man all the way down to the most pathetic?
It is not god that puts a beginning, an end or conditions upon love, but humans that attempt to interperate His/Her words. It is us that says to our fellow man that you must do this or that to earn god's love. God did not. The failures of love are our failures, not gods. For love is all encompassing and passes no judgement upon anyone.
Do you love unconditionally??? Are you capable of such a leap of faith??? Maybe it is you that has failed to stand up to the addects of that ever so powerful verb - Love.

2007-03-27 10:14:27 · answer #4 · answered by AthenaGenesis 4 · 1 0

Language is too limited to describe God, because language begins, and language ends. The word God itself begins with a G, and ends with a d, therefore inadequate to describe God. And love is not an emotion.

2007-03-27 10:51:54 · answer #5 · answered by Maus 7 · 1 0

God is love and he defined love for us in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13 perfectly.

Also, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. . . . .

God also tells us that he is the alpha and the omega, (the beginning and the end).

God is perfect. Your question however, has holes in it as written.

2007-03-27 10:17:44 · answer #6 · answered by Stefka 5 · 0 1

A milder example of an old argument that you can't affirm anything meaningful about god. May be true, but it makes "god" a rather useless concept.

2007-03-27 11:26:23 · answer #7 · answered by mcd 4 · 0 0

Let us assume "God exists".

From that, and your argument, the "God" in the phrase is not God as it is followed by a verb. As, incidentally, is the "God" in "God must be" and "God can not".

So if we accept the stipulates God cannot exist.

2007-03-27 10:03:44 · answer #8 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 2 0

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