God's qualities

[Eliot Wild]

Which of God's qualities is most endearing to you?

What I like most about God is His unobtrusiveness. I never hear Him. I never see Him. Even those times I have sought him out, it is almost like He isn't really there at all, like He's just a figment of everyone's imagination who claims to have met Him or seen Him. What a prankster, huh? He is so silent, still and remote, it's almost like He doesn't even exist at all.

 

[England my lionheart]

Which of God's qualities is most endearing to you?

Gods qualities are that s/he is omniscient and ,so s/he knows whether you will fry in hell or go to paradise,of course this is before you are even born,even your death and the reason for it,whether you are a Baby dying of HIV or some old person who will die in their sleep.

I have been told though that life is a test,bearing in mind the above its not much of a test even if we don't know the result of the test God does so some people are going to struggle through life for nothing and are going to fry anyway so whats the point of that person being born in the first place .

Anyway God is also omnipresent so even this post contains God,so thats another quality

 

[FlyingTeaPot]

The whole jealousy thing is very endearing. It shows even god can be a cute little petulant kid.

 

[james2ko]

The whole jealousy thing is very endearing. It shows even god can be a cute little petulant kid.

gods jealousy is quite endearing
shows that god is as insecure as all of us simpletons and how he NEEDS to feel important;

Could I ask you two a question? Are you married or have a girlfriend (boyfriend)? If not currently, have you ever had one?.........And yes it is relevant to the topic.

 

[waitasec]

Could I ask you two a question? Are you married or have a girlfriend (boyfriend)? If not currently, have you ever had one?.........And yes it is relevant to the topic.

sure, i'll play

yes and i have a son...

 

[MaybeSpartacus]

So is it a cruel God who is safely rescuing the trapped miners in Chile?

No, because he is invisible. God created those men with the mental capability to figure out what they needed to do and how to do it.

God is acting through those people then? Ah, that old argument. You know the infinite master of the multiverse could do something more tangible than taking credit for the engineers, countless volunteers, search and rescue squads ready to plunge into danger, the trapped workers themselves, and their crew boss which has kept them sane, alive, and will be last one pulled out. You can claim God has given people the ability to help themselves, sure... but that's where due credit to God goes, no further, and only if you believe in God does that even apply. He isn't working around the clock. He isn't risking his neck. Those people are and I give all credit to them because that is where it is due.

 

[james2ko]

sure, i'll play

yes and i have a son...

That's great. If you see someone flirting with your mate or worse yet, catch him or her cheating on you, would you not feel violated and harbor feelings of jealousy?

This is the same kind of jealousy God is speaking of.

 

[AuroraWillow]

Depends on which God you're speaking of.

Minerva and Mercury's, my Patrons, qualities to me as my sister and brother, and the support that goes with that are important in my relationship to them.

But, if we're specifically talking about the God of Christianity? I don't find any of his qualities to be positive.

 

[waitasec]

That's great. If you see someone flirting with your mate or worse yet, catch him or her cheating on you, would you not feel violated and harbor feelings of jealousy?

This is the same kind of jealousy God is speaking of.

if you love somebody
set them free
or do you lock em up and throw away the key?

god was created in the image of man
a very jealous man

 

[james2ko]

if you love somebody
set them free or do you lock em up and throw away the key?
god was created in the image of man a very jealous man
go ahead and wait for tomorrow
for as long as you can...

Sounds catchy. Are these lyrics to a remake of Sting's hit song?

 

[Dan4reason]

Which of God's qualities is most endearing to you?

God's onmiscience is most endearing. An omniscient God is against things like genocide, male dominance, slavery, and irrational belief.

 

[waitasec]

Sounds catchy. Are these lyrics to a remake of Sting's hit song?

yes it is...

 

[Falvlun]

Dang.

Sometimes I wish we atheists weren't so depressing.

 

[ninerbuff]

I appreciate that He is empathetic. Even though Jehovah God and his Son Jesus, are perfect they are empathic toward the human family remembering we are dust, sin and fall short of the glory of God. They are aware of our limitations and do not expect us to be perfect. God personally feels the pain his people suffer. At Zechariah 2:8 He says " He that is touching you is touching my eyeball". Jesus when he saw Martha weeping over the death of her brother, Lazarus, Jesus “groaned in the spirit and became troubled” and “gave way to tears.” To me empathy attracts. When we are discouraged or depressed, aren't we are drawn to someone who can comprehend our circumstances and share our pain? Then how much more we should be drawn to a compassionate God who feels our pain and understands the reason for our tears.

Empathy would include helping those who need it most. But I guess starving children in Africa don't need empathy.

 

[ChristineES]

Which of God's qualities is most endearing to you?

Love and mercy

 

[FlyingTeaPot]

Could I ask you two a question? Are you married or have a girlfriend (boyfriend)? If not currently, have you ever had one?.........And yes it is relevant to the topic.

As a matter of fact, I do. Please do let me know how it is relevant.

 

[blackout]

Originally Posted by starlite
Which of God's qualities is most endearing to you?

Those qualities!

 

[james2ko]

The whole jealousy thing is very endearing. It shows even god can be a cute little petulant kid.

Could I ask you a question? Are you married or have a girlfriend (boyfriend)? If not currently, have you ever had one?.........And yes it is relevant to the topic.

As a matter of fact, I do. Please do let me know how it is relevant.

That's great. If you see someone flirting with your mate or worse yet, catch him or her cheating on you, would you not feel violated and harbor feelings of jealousy?

This is the same kind of jealousy God is speaking of my friend.

 

[AuroraWillow]

That's great. If you see someone flirting with your mate or worse yet, catch him or her cheating on you, would you not feel violated and harbor feelings of jealousy?

This is the same kind of jealousy God is speaking of my friend.

Considering my personal relationship is more complicated than straight monogamy, no, I wouldn't.

However, I don't think it matters to most of us what kind of jealousy it is, it's still a negative quality. If you create beings with free will to believe whatever they want, then you have no right to be jealous when they believe in something else. Likewise, if I tell my husband he's allowed to date outside our marriage, what right do I have to be jealous when he does it?

 

[Eliot Wild]

That's great. If you see someone flirting with your mate or worse yet, catch him or her cheating on you, would you not feel violated and harbor feelings of jealousy?

This is the same kind of jealousy God is speaking of my friend.

I can accept your definition of Godly 'jealousy' herein above, however, if that is true, it would seem to undermine God's supposedly perfect, infallible nature.

Jealousy is a 'human' emotion stemming from fear and possessiveness. In the examples above, jealousy resulting from a simple flirtation would be derived from fear that one's mate would actually respond in kind to the flirtatious overtures. In the 'flirtation' example, the jealousy is a product of human fear--fear that one's mate would be unfaithful if given the chance.

As for jealousy resulting from an actual consummated affair, where one's mate does in fact 'cheat' on them, that is jealousy derived from possessiveness. We don't own our mates. And while we have certain expectations based on both spoken and unspoken agreements, such as the expectation of faithfulness in a monogamous relationship, our jealousy is born of possessiveness, a feeling that our mate is bound to us in a way that allows us certain control over them. Of course, that jealous feeling is also exacerbated when combined with the inevitable emotional hurt and loss of trust that comes with such a betrayal. But still, all these reactions to events you have mentioned are the products of a fallible human bio-emotional system at work.

Are you saying that God has human emotions that can be provoked, strained, weakened and exacerbated by our thoughtless flirtations and dalliances with people other than God? Does God fear our flirtations with other deities? If he is omniscient, doesn't he know there are NO other deities? As far as that goes, if God is omniscient, doesn't he know the true intent of our hearts and minds to begin with, thereby making his feelings of fear and possessiveness over his relationship with us a bit meaningless?