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Lightbulb Does God have feelings? - 03-26-2007, 06:15 PM

"God created Man in his own image so Man is trying to create God in his own image"

Let me begin by saying i am not religious and i do not believe in a Judaism/Christian/Islamic God, although I'm still searching for answers as to whether some sort of 'God' really does exist. Maybe God is in every one of us, maybe we ourselves are all a part of some God.

Anyway just for the sake of it lets say that your God exists. If he created Man in his own image and gave Humans consciousness, emotions and the likes then He too must have these. If fear exists in humans then wouldn't fear be felt by God himself if He is the one who gave us our traits in the first place? How about pain and anger? Hatred? Does he feel these too or does he just 'know' them?

I was pondering a while ago and i just curiously asked myself: What if God committed suicide? Would it be possible at all...If He is a superior being and he has the power to create life then it must be possible within his own powers to stop existing and as a result taking everything with Him. Just don't ask me why God would decide to stop existing.. Just a thought..




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Smile Re: Does God have feelings? - 03-26-2007, 06:43 PM

Thanks for your first post.Polybium,and welcome to the toequest community,I send you
greetings from the UK,does God have any feelings?All things belong to God,all things are
God,the only absolute reality is God!I think that answers the question.


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Re: Does God have feelings? - 03-04-2008, 08:02 PM

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"God created Man in his own image so Man is trying to create God in his own image"

Let me begin by saying i am not religious and i do not believe in a Judaism/Christian/Islamic God, although I'm still searching for answers as to whether some sort of 'God' really does exist. Maybe God is in every one of us, maybe we ourselves are all a part of some God.

Anyway just for the sake of it lets say that your God exists. If he created Man in his own image and gave Humans consciousness, emotions and the likes then He too must have these. If fear exists in humans then wouldn't fear be felt by God himself if He is the one who gave us our traits in the first place? How about pain and anger? Hatred? Does he feel these too or does he just 'know' them?

I was pondering a while ago and i just curiously asked myself: What if God committed suicide? Would it be possible at all...If He is a superior being and he has the power to create life then it must be possible within his own powers to stop existing and as a result taking everything with Him. Just don't ask me why God would decide to stop existing.. Just a thought..


Yes I believe God does have feelings, you have feelings God is you and you are God, you and the Power are one. Christ says "I in the Father and the father in me" I believe that goes for everything and everybody. Everything is in the Power and the Power is in everything.......... Therefore God has feelings.
  
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Re: Does God have feelings? - 05-13-2008, 03:04 AM

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Christ says "I in the Father and the father in me"
Your analysis only makes sense because this verse is out of context. Within the context of the Scriptures it becomes clear that Christ and the Father are operating in unity but are separate beings.

Allow me to show the verse above with in the context that it was originally written so that the meaning may be clearer.

John 14


6)Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7)If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

8 ) Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."

9)Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10)Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11)Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12)I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13)And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14)You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.


Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15)"If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16)And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17)the Spirit of truth.

{End Quote}

The Bold is the text used to claim God is Jesus and Jesus is God - the underlined portions clearly refute such a claim.

If Jesus and God the Father are one then Jesus would be asking himself to send the Holy Spirit which doesn't really make much sense. Jesus is divine he is God as in God the Son however He is not God the Father nor is He God the Holy Spirit.

Please review Matthew 3:17 and Luke 22:42



Now does God have emotions -

Considering they are spoken of through out the Christian Bible I would have to say it is obvious He does. The Bible speaks of Him being a jealous God, a loving God and a vengeful one - Jesus walked upon the Earth in a physical body and experienced emotions as a human...

Does God have emotions like we do?

Well do you have emotions like me or even our own father? You and I may experience anger or love but just because we both experience anger or love doesn't not mean our experiences are necessarily alike.

Isaiah 55

8 )"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.

9 )"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

{End Quote}

In my opinion

Any one who wants to be god needs to write their own scriptures, this will eliminate the need to misrepresent Christian text...
  
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Re: Does God have feelings? - 05-13-2008, 08:43 AM

I once was playing blackjack with a naked blackjack dealer, on the internet, and she said to me that the universe was indifferent, that it had no feeling. I guess she had studied exisentialism and the works of Sartre and Camus. She even quoted the last page of Camus's THE STRANGER ( THE OUTSIDER ).In which Camus said it was an indifferent universe.

I text her back and asked her if she had emotion, and she stated that indeed she did. So I replied, so does the universe, in that she is part of it and if she had emotion than the universe does also.

The Buddhist have a saying that if you see the Buddha on the street " KILL HIM "
The reason being is that the Buddha is suppose to be inside of you not outside.

Jesus knew this and is one of the reasons for his death, so he could send the " wonderful counselor " to be in us and not outside.

Indeed GOD has emotion.

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