Dou really believe that GOD has human-like emotions? That HE is capable of ANGER, JEALOUSY, HAPPINESS & etc.?

Question

Or do you believe that attributing emotions to HIM is a form of anthropomorphism?

Answer 1

Frankly, I don't see how he could not. People, animals, and even plants have senses/feeligns of some sort. The higher the being the more acute his/her feelings become and how much he/she is aware of them.

God is what most people, who believe, would say is the highest consciousness. So, I would say God would have to have them.

Just hope that God doesn't have too many of the negative emotions like anger and jealousy .

Answer 2

Actually, we have God-like traits that include anger, jealousy, happiness, etc.

I don't believe it to be anthropomorphism, I believe it to be the part of 'creating man in His own image' that we still have. The problem with humans is that we carry on with those traits and misapply them to things of our own meaning, with our own values. Not God's values.

As for this dialog we are having. The assumption is that humans led nature into the realm of having emotions in front of what is called God. When all along, it was God who made us in His own image. What for? Because most humans don't have the mind of God, and so are not knowledgeable about Him. They even think that humans made God, and so the story goes until you actually know Him!

Answer 3

Whose definitions are you using? Our "emotions" are mere shadows of specific attributes of God; and even then, a great deal of information is lost in translation from Hebrew, which is a symbolic and poetic language, into English which is a crude, descriptive language. information is also lost when translating from greek to English - for example, Love can either be an emotion or an attribute, depending on context. Greek had different words for the different forms of and types of love, Hebrew had even more. English has only one word for love, and that is supposed to cover all the different meanings based on context of the English language. So, while the Hebrew language would define God's jealousy literally as a desire and passionate yearning for fellowship with man tied with indignation with the futility of worshiping false gods and idols, the English merely says "God is a jealous god." You have taken the "easy way out" and focused only on the limited understanding available when studying the scriptures only in English - if you actually studied the scriptures at all rather than pulled your information from the typical anti-Christian propaganda materials available. The truth is God has jeolusy in the fullest and purest forms, the same as God exibits pure anger, pure love, and pure hate. God demonstrates these attributes without emotion, but we, in our limited capacity, can only have these traits through emotional mechanisms; unless ne is filled with the Spirit of God. Only then can a person function in these attributes without and in spite of our emotions. God is not reactionary, He takes the course of action He has already stated He would take. God has the plan and knows exactly how it will come about; the point is, we do not. In our perspective, we have free choice to choose, but God already knows what we will choose, when we will choose it, and how He will respond in order to get the point across to us. And, God already knows what the outcomes will be. That is God's perspective. From your perspective? You can't even say with 100% certainty exactly what you will be doing tomorrow, but God knows exactly where you will be and what you will say or even think, if anything, at 10:45:01 AM on June 3, 2014. Free choice? That is a matter of perspective, isn't it. YOU can choose whatever you want, and it will be justified to YOU. However, God already knows, and He already knows how He will respond to whatever He knows your choice will be. THat is far from reactionary, sounds to me like it is all 100% planned.

Answer 4

Well, according to the Bible, he is. But I always believed that the Bible was written through divine inspiration but was submitted to human interpretation.

Sooooooo given THAT, I will (humanly interpret) that God does have emotions. He made us in His image, physically and spiritually. HOWEVER, we are just poor copies of the real thing, so humans are marred with weakness of sin.

I dont think emotions are anything sinful. It's what you do choose to do in your emotional state that can become sinful.

Answer 5

guess ur question has its answers. He made us in His likeness... we exhibit His likeness, in other words, emotions or call it acts for simpler terms.

I guess that is why Has not destroyed this workd despite the atrocities committed every second. He feels with us, that is why we are under grace, through His son Jesus,who had to die for us even though He did not know us personally, like one on one, but because we share same emotions, likeness, He understands. Well what else do u need to know?
I really need to check for that word anthro.....

Answer 6

I think he does and that's where we get ours.

I hope he does. Wouldn't it be boring in Heaven if he were stoic-faced 24/7? No one likes people being like that at their parties.

I can't forget hearing Robin Williams say he believed God must have a sense of humor because he created the f-(rhyms with art).

Answer 7

all through the bible one can read about god's emotions. i do not see god with such petty insecurities as people. we are the divine and that is why god sounds so much like us. he has no body because he exists in our minds. what we think is what god does. the goodness we show to others, it is our divine mentality that gives credit to god. when we show wickedness to others, it is our divine nature that destroys and god gets the blame. we blame ourselves every time we accuse god. we are god, we get the blame.

Answer 8

I am made in His image.. I have emotions, He has emotions.... God could not make something that was His image if He did not have it could he ??? and you bet He is a Jealous God, and He does show anger, OFTEN , and Love more so !!!!! go in peace...... God bless

Answer 9

rather that man has God-like emotions. after all, man was created in the image of God.

Answer 10

I think it's ludicrous to describe a god as possessing human emotions. We SHOULD be scared of a petulant, pouty, precocious god. If there is a god at all, I think we would mean as much to him as a kid feels about his ant farm.
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