Do you prefer the aspect of a Loving God or a Just God?

Question

And why...?


And this is not a question for atheists to soap-box...

If you must contribute, do it from you imagination and remove the word God... If you must...

Do you prefer a man or a sheep or a cloned cow to be Just or Loving? Whatever rocks your socks... I don't care, just answer the question.

For me personally... I prefer a Just God, conscience or cloned cow... whatever. Because to me. Being just, is loving someone enough to allow for the expenditure.

Exactly aristotle... Well said!

And for those more religious people out there...

Remember kiddies... The Great handbook in the sky, says emphatically that God is Both at the very same time!

Im asking which YOU prefer?

Answer 1

As a polytheist, I have both. But I agree with what may be your underlying point - love and particularly mercy are pretty much by definition unjust.

The problem with love is that it can go too far. We all know of cases where an excess of love has produced horrible, horrible results, from spoiled children to murders to an unrelenting lifelong agony when unrequited.

Good parents (and gods, too!) may love their children, but they also sometimes have to be cruel to them. Their wards must sometimes be forced to do and experience things they dislike which are nonetheless for their own good. Someone who loves their children so much that they can't bear their suffering painful needles for vaccinations or any disappointment that they can avert is really only courting a greater disaster down the road.

Justice, on the other hand, can't really go too far. Where things are completely and perfectly fair, there can't really be any substantial complaints. You may not like that cause leads to effect when you are doing things that merit bad effects, but you really have nobody to blame but yourself. A perfect justice system would even take into account those who were ignorant of the rules!

Naturally, I PREFER love to justice... as long as it is moderated and reasonable. But if I had to choose to receive an infinite amount of one or the other, I'd choose justice without hesitation.

Peace.

Answer 2

I prefer a Loving God. I like to live in this world as a person I believe God loves my family and me, looks upon us to avoid catastrophes, and expect us to abide some of the rules of Christianity.
I don't prefer a Just God, as there are so many unpleasant consequences, so much fear and anxiety, and the "Justness" of our God is always disputed as a major factor in religious interpretations. I try to stay away from suffering in every form possible, and hope abiding by God's wishes is good enough.
Thank you.

Answer 3

Dear Go_Know_Thyselfs:
Not meaning to falatter You at all, I gues You have probably posted one of the most interesting questions I've read here.

For Me, Loving and Justice are two highest virtues but of them both, Loving is the higher one.
I can't even imagine what can it be or how can it be Justice without Love... For me Justice is the immediate consequence of Love, and there can not be Justice where Love is absent...

Hopefully This answer makes Your values boil a bit!

Good luck! Bear hugs! ;-)

Answer 4

My God is both loving and just. They coencide within. He loves us with His infinate being and wants us to be happy and enjoy our time on this earth, but he also loves us enough to be just. He's given us the blueprint for our lives, and to follow this exactly is to live a life in which God doesn't have to punish or open our eyes. And instead can focus on just becoming closer to eachother until there is no clear distinction where the 'i' begins and His eternal love never ends.

Answer 5

You speak of a supreme being like he would be bound to the same conceptual restrictions of the human mind. Theoretically, any supreme being would be absolute in his knowledge, spacial location, temporal location, so on and so forth. The concepts of love and justice would mean nothing to him, as they are simply referential ideas used to distinguish from hate and injustice respectively.

As he would understand these concepts absolutely, there would be no need for him to be either/or. He encapsulates all concepts, good and evil.

I would prefer a supreme being who makes no distinction as we do between what is love/hate and justice/injustice - I would rather take one that makes no distinction at all. The supreme being who simply is none of the things we have the potential to be or actually are, is what I would prefer him to be....so at least we can learn something from him.

Answer 6

I don't think that the divine attributes of love and justice are by their nature mutually exclusive. So, I would not choose between the two, but hope that if God exists, that in terms of his nature, love and justice and correlated and find perfection in each other.

Answer 7

A loving God any day , a just God depicts IT as a two sided ,just and unjust , judgmental ,and God ought to be loving to everything no mater what ,to the fair and to the unfair .

Answer 8

The aspect of a Loving God.I am semi-religious(rarely go to church,but I do pray at night) I know God loves me & I live Him.

That's all I can think of.

Answer 9

i prefer god or simply i prefer things to feelings.

Answer 10

I DONT WANT TO SEEM BORING, BUT I WOULD PREFER A JUST GOD. (NO BULLSH*T)