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Because God created Satan, why would he hate his own creation? He might not like watching his children suffer, but like any good parent, He knows, that only through suffering, can we truly understand.true blood said:Hate has nothing to do with doing good or doing bad, please look up the definitions. And I said "hate" is one of the roots of karma. You twisted my words around. I don't even believe in karma but I do know that "hatefullness", dosa and adosa, are two of the six karmical roots. And I can't fanthom how you would think God does not hate Satan. Why would you think God does not have a feeling of dislike towards Satan? How do you define Hate and can you provide some words you think might have similar meanings?
I don't want to go off topic, but thank you. I will look more into this. I had made assumptions that Karma was based on maybe what is known as the 7 deadly sins.true blood said:Scripture says that God created Lucifer (not Satan, which is a downfallen effect) and loved him very well, it might even say a little more that the other angels. And your wrong about that teaching of suffering. One does not need to suffer to become a more refined person. Of course, that's if your talking about the scriptures.
I don't know much about karma just knew a little about hate but looked up this '(roots', also called hetu (qv; s. paccaya, 1), are those conditions which through their presence determine the actual moral quality of a volitional state (cetaná), and the consciousness and mental factors associated therewith, in other words, the quality of karma (qv). There are 6 such roots, 3 karmically wholesome and 3 unwholesome roots, viz.,: greed, hate, delusion (lobha, dosa, moha), and greedlessness, hatelessness, undeludedness (alobha, adosa, amoha).
It really bothers me that so many people think this way. Suffering isn't necessary. If you percieve guilt in your brother, you cannot forgive him. If you perceive guilt in yourself, you cannot forgive yourself. Only when you perceive your fellow Son of God as completely and eternally guiltless can you truly forgive him. And when that happens, rather than inducing suffering, it will bring to you a joy and peace that can only be imagined in this world.EnhancedSpirit said:And about suffering. One cannot evolve spiritually without suffering. The only way to KNOW compassion is to have felt the pain. The only way to KNOW forgiveness, is to have felt the guilt.
But how can you know what joy and peace are unless you have felt sad and restlessness?Riven said:It really bothers me that so many people think this way. Suffering isn't necessary. If you percieve guilt in your brother, you cannot forgive him. If you perceive guilt in yourself, you cannot forgive yourself. Only when you perceive your fellow Son of God as completely and eternally guiltless can you truly forgive him. And when that happens, rather than inducing suffering, it will bring to you a joy and peace that can only be imagined in this world.
Gerani1248 said:If God is love, compassion, and the Truth, does God hate?
Gerani1248 said:Ive seen many people say that God hates homosexuality, child molestation, even Evil.
Gerani1248 said:If God is noT human, how is it possible for God to express human emotion?
Gerani1248 said:Im just wondering what yall think.
michel said:a) I don't think God is human
Gerani1248 said:I cannot imagine God as being capable of hate - he might have a feeling of disappointment, but in my mind, he only waits for the return of the 'lost sheep'.
This part is wrong,however...Halcyon said:God doesn't hate anything
Halcyon said:its people who place their own opinions onto God, and then claim they're His opinions.
NothingIsNot said:Isn't that a contradiction? You're saying God doesn't hate anything, but you're placing your (or whatever book/religion) opinion of a God onto him.
iaminterface said:God is loving meciful forgiving, and doesnt punish people for eternity because they believe differently.
Pussyfoot Mouse said:I believe that God feels sad for the sinners gone astray. And he knows that in each of us is the strength to find our way back.
Pussyfoot Mouse said:We just need to find that strength, and for some it isn't as easy as it is for others.
Christopher Krajewski said:Tss.... He could be the explanation for evil, or the redemption from Evil, or the one who dies in spite of Goodness from the fighters for Justice. On the other hand, He may just punish with poetic justice himself, and let us do Our eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth bit.
Christopher Krajewski said:Zoroastrianism goes in a radical way further. It states that God makes everything happen with Hate and Love by and with that there. If you say GGod hates there is a really effective way to never be forgiven.
Gat your frubals Up?:woohoo:
Riven said:Man invented the concept of hate, it is completely foreign to God.