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Does God or gods have to be benevolant?
- Thread starter Antibush5
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When you're a god, you get to do as you please.
We mortals get to put up with it.
We mortals get to put up with it.
You're here, aren't you? That's a good thing, isn't it?
Antibush5
Active Member
Doesn't make God benevolaunt for creating me.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
God can be seen as a reflection of the believer. If one is bitter and wrathful inside, it's possible their view of God--as the creator of their universe--is going to be as well.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
God is love. Love is benevolent.
Antibush5
Active Member
I guess I am just a very bitter person then
It does if it's a good thing.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
I guess I am just a very bitter person then
Or, you could be happy and go-lucky, projecting all that inner bitterness onto a universal consciousness.
Geez, thanks for the bitterness!
Antibush5
Active Member
That sounds a bit more like me.Or, you could be happy and go-lucky, projecting all that inner bitterness onto a universal consciousness.
Geez, thanks for the bitterness!
But I am aparantly seriously, serious.
Skwim
Veteran Member
The many indications to the contrary.
What is love?
Two people in an abusive relationship could maintain it for the entirety of their existence together. Is love then 'abuse''? (I say no.)
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Skwim
Veteran Member
Yeah, I should have clarified. The "many indications to the contrary" was in regard to "God is love."
idea
Question Everything
if they were not, they would cease to be God...
here's one scripture -
Alma 42:25
25 What, do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say unto you, Nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God.
the whole chap 42 spells out the conditional nature of it. God walks a fine line...
idea
Question Everything
God didn't create their universe. God transforms what eternally exists
Did God create out of nothing - by Jamie Turner - Helium
God is cleaning up a mess He did not make - and He refuses to take away agency.... we choose to let Him clean us up, or not - our will.
Revasser
Terrible Dancer
Baby, don't hurt me.
Sorry.
I couldn't resist.I tend to think that, if such beings were to exist, any god that would be taking the slightest bit of interest in humans and their affairs would be enough like us to make relating to us (and vica versa) plausible. Meaning I would imagine them having flaws and neuroses just like we do and personalities ranging from more or less benevolent to downright nasty and self-serving.
I think it makes more sense for our gods to mirror our own personalities than to be "above" that kind of thing.
In my view, moreso than you can imagine.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Do smurfs have to be blue?