Does God have emotions?

[DanishDude]

What do you believe and why?

I would like to qoute Alvin Plantinga on this one:
"As the Christian sees things, God does not stand idly by, cooly observing the suffering of His creatures. He enters into and shares our suffering. He endures the anguish of seeing his son, the second person of the Trinity, consigned to the bitterly cruel and shameful death of the cross. Some theologians claim that God cannot suffer. I believe they are wrong. God's capacity for suffering, I believe, is proportional to his greatness; it exceeds our capacity for suffering in the same measure as his capacity for knowledge exceeds ours. Christ was prepared to endure the agonies of hell itself; and God, the Lord of the universe, was prepared to endure the suffering consequent upon his son's humiliation and death. He was prepared to accept this suffering in order to overcome sin, and death, and the evils that afflict our world, and to confer on us a life more glorious than we can imagine. So we don't know why God permits evil; we do know, however, that He was prepared to suffer on our behalf, to accept suffering of which we can form no conception."

Let's start the discussion. Enjoy!

 

[kevin007]

of course He does.

 

[psychoslice]

Of course he doesn't.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

What would be the point? Shouldn't God worry about getting things done for a desired outcome in the long run instead of worrying about what people react to his actions in the present?

 

[psychoslice]

What would be the point? Shouldn't God worry about getting things done for a desired outcome in the long run instead of worrying about what people react to his actions in the present?

Yea that's it, in my church they use to tell their children that every time you do something naughty you make Jesus cry, that's disgusting.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

The animating, universal cosmic Force we call God? No. The local Gods that polytheists are familiar with? Yes.

 

[psychoslice]

The animating, universal cosmic Force we call God? No. The local Gods that polytheists are familiar with? Yes.

But does the so called local Gods really have emotions, or is the emotion just projected from the many believes ?.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

But does the so called local Gods really have emotions, or is the emotion just projected from the many believes ?.

You go ask people who have worked with various deities and see what they have to tell you.

 

[psychoslice]

You go ask people who have worked with various deities and see what they have to tell you.

But wouldn't they just tell you through their own emotion's ?.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

But wouldn't they just tell you through their own emotion's ?.

Huh? I'm saying that the people who have worked with different deities, spirits and Daimons/Demons will tell you that they are individuals with their own personal likes and dislikes and who exhibit a range of responses.

 

[Quintessence]

I'm not going to pretend I get the one-god that the OP is probably referring to, but it would seem to me that such a god-concept would transcend a human thing like emotional states.

For many of my gods, emotional states are just not applicable; or at least not in the fashion of human emotional states. But it depends on the god you're talking about. Some gods are emotional states themselves. Deimos, personified aspect of terror, for example. A Tree Spirit on the other hand, doesn't experience animal emotional states, being it... well... is a plant and not an animal. Other spirits/gods I've had contact with are very human-like with respect to emotional states, though.

 

[Valjean]

The Bible describes God as insecure in several places, doesn't it? God is described as jealous. Jealousy is a form of insecurity.
Why, and of whom, would an omnipotent God be jealous?

 

[psychoslice]

Huh? I'm saying that the people who have worked with different deities, spirits and Daimons/Demons will tell you that they are individuals with their own personal likes and dislikes and who exhibit a range of responses.

Sorry I just don't have any beliefs in deities and such, but still, do these people who communicate with these deities, spirits and Daimons/Demons, actually communicate, or do they through their own emotions make what they believe happen ?.

 

[psychoslice]

The Bible describes God as insecure in several places, doesn't it? God is described as jealous. Jealousy is a form of insecurity.
Why, and of whom, would an omnipotent God be jealous?

Very good point.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Sorry I just don't have any beliefs in deities and such, but still, do these people who communicate with these deities, spirits and Daimons/Demons, actually communicate, or do they through their own emotions make what they believe happen ?.

Yeah, they communicate in various ways.

 

[Sees]

Sorry I just don't have any beliefs in deities and such, but still, do these people who communicate with these deities, spirits and Daimons/Demons, actually communicate, or do they through their own emotions make what they believe happen ?.

Experience is the only way to really know for your self.

 

[psychoslice]

Experience is the only way to really know for your self.

Yes I see that, but even first hand experience, is still your emotions that you get from that experience, even if you were enlightened, the experience is not what IS, its always secondary.

 

[Sees]

Yes I see that, but even first hand experience, is still your emotions that you get from that experience, even if you were enlightened, the experience is not what IS, its always secondary.

Right I can't know if I'm talking to a man from Australia or a computer program For usable framework I take you as a mystic Aussie regardless of what you truly are.

 

[psychoslice]

Right I can't know if I'm talking to a man from Australia or a computer program For usable framework I take you as a mystic Aussie regardless of what you truly are.

And what is a mystic, what is your feeling of what a mystic is, is it second hand or your own experience, and if it is your own experience, what emotions do you attach to that experience, can you truly grasp what is beyond the experience ?.

 

[Sees]

Mystic is broad from one who experiences mystical experiences to one who feels home with existence to one who feels one with All or God or Universe...endless takes.

I only attach awe and wonder to my own mystical experiences. If I feel deep peace and connected to life, earth, friends and family I don't label it or see it as a revelation.