Does God have feelings?

[Polybius]

"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..

[mkirkpatrick]

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.


regards michael.

[chazzysaw]

"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.

[Knot_Me]

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...

[Profpat]

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.

Best to all,

Pat

[Graybeard]

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?

Here's some late breaking news ....

History was made Wednesday when a group of archaeologists working in a dig at Mabell, Israel stumbled across an ancient stash of wooden tablets. Numbering over three hundred in all, the tablets are made of gopher wood onto which Hebrew characters were inscribed in ink. They appear to contain the personal diary of Moses.

Carbon dating by three independent laboratories has confirmed a date for the tablets of 1200 B.C., plus or minus a century, making this the oldest known example of Hebrew writing. Both the wood and ink, which is based on animal fat and the juice of a now-extinct plant, date to the same era, and the tablets were recovered in a strata with other objects of similar date. 'There is no doubt these are authentic,' reports Dr. Giles Tory, head of the dig and chair of Biblical Archaeology at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachussets.


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cool bananas ... greg

[Mohan.C]

He need not have feelings, if he is the only existence...?

Feelings(emotions) are god.
In Hinduism, there are a lot of gods, somewhere close to 3 million!
And almost all of these gods are for different emotions human's express like anger, love, hate, amazement.. etc etc...

[Mikal]

Here's some late breaking news ....


cool bananas ... greg

Great link Greg...even if it does end with the words "April fools."
A consistent theme runs through it that is interesting...a strong theme of "control"...the creation of a thought system which forces out the trend..."the valuation that humanity puts on itself versus the devaluing of humanity." ....interesting!!


Mikal

[austintorn@aol.com]

No Malfunctions

God, being perfect, has no evil failings.
As for biblical tales of ranting and railing
These are imaginations of stories old
That down through the generations rolled.

Imperfect humans can selfishly hate
And so transcribed these onto Fate.
Love is the only emotion of any worth;
This would have been showered on Earth.

[austintorn@aol.com]

The Karma of the Barking Dogma

Some Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Jews
Wondered what stories they should choose;
Even thought they’d already so many chosen,
They just didn’t want to keep notions so frozen;

So they met to merge the postulations into one,
Thinking that this might be a whole lot of fun.

“In our hypothesis, there is just the Only One.”
“Well, our conception is a multitude of many Some.”
“Well, we’ll partway meet: there’s only the Holy One”
“Nah, the odds of that are over three million to one!”

“Buddha of us was one, so of Gods there are none;
A human above all that now’s never seen by the sun!”
“Humph! Holy Jesus of our one God was His son!
He lit mankind’s darkness with light of the Sun!”

“No, Jewish Jesus was not of any nature Divine,
But was just a mere man much ahead of his time.
This you all should know, being there at the time.
Look at our history singing those biblical rhymes.”

“All is not real, so what is this great big fuss?
Retreat back to where it’s all at to slow the rush.”
“Oh God’s universe and creatures are so real
And that is why we’re making this very big deal.”

“In the afterlife, we in Hell or Heaven reside.”
“Not so fast, for in between these realms we lie,
And if you in this testing life don’t do so well,
You’ll have so many sub-human tales to tell.”

Reason arrived: “Possibility reigned way then back
‘Before’; there’s nothing even holy about all that.
‘Tis all made up, those many fabrications made,
So just let it all be, for this is what existence bade.