NathanShepard8888
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To have the best relationship with God you have to realize he is a personality and watching/creating you right now.
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God as a personality
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BSM1
What? Me worry?
What if He is a She?
Is this personality something we should strive for? Or is it just how one's personality unravels?
mystic64
nolonger active
As a Christian I agree with you. So Nathan what is God's personality? And I look forward to seeing how you respond to Sum of Awe's two questions
. I like those questions!
NathanShepard8888
Member
You can be like the Most High in like a son is like a father. It should come naturally, but why not strive to be more like Him.
mystic64
nolonger active
God can not be a She in the Christian religion. You have to go to a different religion for God to be a She.
mystic64
nolonger active
Welcome to the message board NathanShepard! Things can get interesting here
, that is for sure.Nathan are you like God? And how did you do it?
NathanShepard8888
Member
As a Christian I agree with you. So Nathan what is God's personality? And I look forward to seeing how you respond to Sum of Awe's two questions
The Beneficent.
The Merciful.
The Forgiver.
The All Knowing.
The Honorable.
The All Hearing.
The All Seeing.
The Just.
The All Forgiving.
The Appreciative.
The Most High.
The Most Great.
The Generous One.
The Loving.
The Most Strong.
The Compassionate.
This 'Have to realize' part misses out I think on our inability to comprehend anything at all including God. What I am telling you is genuine, quite old, ancient, very Christian and very unifying. There's no realizing that can happen but only a sort of emulation of it. We think we know things but not really. We only think that we know things, and anything beyond that is just a failure to accept our situation which is that we are pretty ephemeral creatures, like shadows that change when the light moves. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom," etc. If I say to you 'We must realize that God is a personality' then that is like boasting, because I can't really tell you about God directly. God has to be revealed directly to you, not by me. In fact when it comes to God our very language is confused, and have you read the story of Babel? There is no tower we can build that will bring us all closer to God.
Let me give an example set: I think that I think. I think that I may go somewhere tomorrow or that I may start a business, but I am not going somewhere tomorrow or starting a business. I think that I have a valid interpretation of a scripture, but I do not know. I talk like I do, but really I don't. Realizing is for God. Our realizing is a farce, much like a dog understanding a doorknob. A dog may get a doorknob to turn but certainly doesn't understand its parts, even if it thinks it does. We may somehow interact with God, but we cannot have a monopoly on understanding God.
NathanShepard8888
Member
A son innately tends to reflect his father.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
You left out: The Creator of Evil (Isaiah 45:7)
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
People are never simultaneously so naïve and so arrogant as when they project their own, petty, primitive reactions and motivations onto a supposed, all-powerful entity.
Isn't the "best" relationship the one that meets where you are at in your particular stage of development at that time, and that at another point what was 'best' before is not what is 'best' now? Are you saying this is the 'ultimate' point of view to hold? The highest way to relate to God? If so, why?
To realize God has a person-ality is to delude oneself.
mystic64
nolonger active
Well NathanShepard, again welcome to this message board
. The hammer and smash of minds at play ! Defending one's concept of God on this message board requires a lot of input from the Holy Spirit, and sometimes some not so holy spirits , and a love of the "minds at play" game. Nathan I like your list, it is a good list! And one should never let anybody upset them, this is all just a game. Now Nathan you have created a topic here where you can get a lot of posting credits. Just answer everybodies post. It does not matter what you say as long as you treat everybody with respect and you "never" get upset.Again Nathan I like your list of God's qualities. And because you are a Christian you can define the God that you belive in and worship. Actually anybody can define their own God or reasons for a lack of a God in this discussion DIR. In this DIR one can not debate, but as long as one keeps things in a friendly discussion format everything can be discussed in all kinds of interesting ways. I am only saying these things because you are a "neube" and I don't want you to get discouraged and decide to leave
.Lord Jesus is quoted to have said that, "Only through Me can you know the Father." So just for the sake of discussion, there is no way that anybody is going to know "your" God, the Father, unless they are approaching the Father through the Son. If one is approaching the Father through the Son, then they can "know" the Father, which is the entity that you are calling God. And the Father they will know will have the qualities that you have listed
! And should we strive to be more like the Father that you have listed the qualities for? Yes we all should especially if we consider ourselves Christians! Answer everybody's post Nathan, these wonderful folks have provided you an opportunity to get some posting credits. And just for fun ask Lord Jesus or the Holy Spirit for some small thing to say .
arthra
Baha'i
Perceiving God as a "personality" sounds simplistic somehow... For me God is not a "personality"... We deal with personalities daily among ourselves.. A more plausible direction it would seem would be to immerse yourself in His word.
Orbit
I'm a planet
I hate being parenthetical.