Is God good ?

Discussion in 'Religion' started by Thomas Cranmer, Oct 22, 2017.

  1. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    That's an odd thing to say. Supposedly God "is" love and angels are closer to God than humans are. So why woud they be incapable of love?
     
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  3. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Satan IS capable of love. The triarchy of evil is: murdering your Father, getting your Mother pregnant, having intercourse with the child as it grows and tries to kill you. Satan is actually his son's brother, and because of his actions he KNOWS the child is trying to kill him and sleep with his wife.

    This is in the bible: eating from the tree of knowledge and the story of Cain and Abel (Cain murdered Adam "...and later she (Eve) gave birth to his (Cain's) Brother, Abel.")

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  5. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    Cain murdered Abel (Genesis 4:8)
     
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  7. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Abel hadn't been born yet. Re-read the passage: "Later, she gave birth to his Brother, Abel."

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    ...and this happened because Satan loves his Mum. So Satan is capable of love. God loves his wife MORE than he loves his Mum.

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  9. davewhite04 Valued Senior Member

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    Maybe Love didn't exist before Adam and Eve got the tree of knowledge.
     
  10. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    It didn't. The tree of knowledge exists because God DOES NOTHING. It takes no part and has no place in society. Hence the evil that has flourished in the world.
     
  11. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    This is kind of the question Satan is trying to get people to rethink.
     
  12. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Only if you think of him as a human.
     
  13. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    No, just using the biblical interpretation of a "motivated intelligence". If we give Satan human attributes, we cannot excuse God from having human attributes.

    As usual Carlin said it best; "results like this you'd expect from an officetemp with a bad attitude."..........

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  14. davewhite04 Valued Senior Member

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    The "Tree of Knowledge" should not be in our society?
     
  15. davewhite04 Valued Senior Member

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    Are you referring to "Carling beer"?
     
  16. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    The tree of knowledge is, "everything." I cannot think of anymore...can you?
     
  17. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Now that you ask. (warning, crude language)
     
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  18. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, everything except the tree of knowledge
     
  19. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    That's not more, that's less. Everything and more? I know there's forever and ever...
     
  20. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Talking about love. Swans mate for life.
     
  21. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    The tree of knowledge is everything? Do you mean "the tree of knowledge of good and evil? The morality tree?
    Even if you want to change the biblical text and propose that Adam and Eve ate "the fruit of the tree of knowledge", we're only talking about humans becoming smart. And we know that humans do not know everything.

    And God is not a tree. The tree is a symbolic representation of "branches of knowledge" and they grow very old. Thus the sages of old suspected that trees knew a lot from experience.
    Similar to Treebeard who is an Ent (a very old thing, in the Hobbit)

    "God" is the symbolic representation of "that which may become reality". Remember, no "craven images". God has no form, it is pure spirit. One might say "lots of energy and potential"........

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    Just look at the painting and the variety of "enfolded implicate potential become unfolded in reality"
     
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  22. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Nice write4u!
     
  23. davewhite04 Valued Senior Member

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    Yes. I took a trip to a nature reserve about a week ago, Bolam Lake and fed plenty of swans there. One of my favourite birds.


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