God the Great Watcher With Hurt Feelings, Rage, Jealousy and Everything Human (page 2)

EndofMysteries

I love that anology frankie, it actually makes sense. Perhaps that's how the book is composed.

and perhaps that's how he knows our thoughts too? Think about it, how "do" we have memories? How are they stored? If it's all scientific, is it possible to invent something which could download all of our memories and thoughts to a computer and view them on tv as we see them in our mind? But anyway, our own mind would be that tracking cookie, if apart of God, that's how he can know our prayers when not speaking, our thoughts, and read our hearts.

SirNose586

Here is one way it "could" be valid.................the bible does describe God as having created all things from himself in a sense, having an abundance of dynamic energy. I read a scripture if he were to withdraw his spirit, everything in existence would fall lifeless. (wish could recall it offhand) So if your existence is apart of him (when one dies spirit "returns" to him), if we are part of his dynamic energy, then he would know EVERYTHING.

That reminds me of the concept of Brahman, only Brahman isn't an entity, just the sum of all reality.

BurnTheShips

As for the point of this thread, it has long been noted how the OT god in particular seems a bit petulant, and less majestic, to the little group of desert wanderers he claimed as his own.

I agree. I doubt God ordered the events here.

Every culture has its sensitivities. It's sensitivities create its geniuses, and those feed back into the culture in turn.

AfAm culture is/was very sensitive to music and rhythm. It created Jazz, Blues, Gospel. It brought forth Duke Ellington, Ray Charles and others.

Hebrew culture was very sensitive to searching for meaning in life, and man's relationship with God. It created a holy literature. It brought forth Isaiahs, Daniels, Davids, and others.

Many of the OT events were written many years, even hundreds of years, after the events. During the interim, they were told around campfires, and acquired meaning beyond mere historical record of events. Then they were written down. I believe God used this unique people to reveal Himself more clearly, culminating in Jesus Christ. But that took centuries.

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Farkel

Even to imply that God likes popcorn and home movies and we are all actors in the movies is incredibly arrogant on our part, I think.

In the cosmic scheme of things we are are not even nothings, not even fleas on ants. We are so insignificant, our combined legacy throughout human existence in the grand scheme of things isn't even worthy of a tiny footnote.

For God to even care about us in the least implies a nobility and compassion so vast we cannot even begin to comprehend it.

I suggest we don't even try to begin to comprehend it.

Farkel

PSacramento

As humans we like to endow our gods with OUR human qualities, including the bad stuff.

frankiespeakin

Fark,

Even to imply that God likes popcorn and home movies and we are all actors in the movies is incredibly arrogant on our part, I think.

So true, it is all based on assumptions, we as humans have a great knack for anthropomorphizing all kinds of things in nature, animals, stones, stars, and Deities.

We are full of contradictions when we say God is unfathomable and then in the next breath proclaim what God likes and doesn't like. Giving him human qualities of love, hate, jealousy, and hurt feeling, as if we knew them to be true.

BurnTheShips

I suggest we don't even try to begin to comprehend it.

Well, we can't. God is like a sheer rock face. We can't climb it. But in my beliefs, he made us a place to grip onto, in his Son's incarnation. We can't fully comprehend God, but he explained himself to us in a human way, to give us a means to relate to him.

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frankiespeakin

Fark,

I suggest we don't even try to begin to comprehend it.

While the outcome of trying to comprehend it will be futile I think something Nietche said gives it merit:

"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see. " - Nietsche
Human, all too Human, s.489

So going to the depths of it may lead one to freedom from it.

God the Great Watcher With Hurt Feelings, Rage, Jealousy and Everything Human

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