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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Solon who wrote (18791)12/1/2004 9:33:33 PM
From: exdaytrader76  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 28931
 
the imposition of any motivating factor on God contradicts the idea of a god's nature being unlimited.

So God can't have emotions? This premise is based upon the idea that all emotions arise out of a deficiency of some sort, and they do in some ways. But emotions also come from excess. When you are motivated to give money to a homeless person, is that because there is something wrong with you? I don't think so. Love isn't a weakness. God has an excess of love, whether his ungrateful children realize it or not.

Here's an oldie but a goodie. There's always a guy beneath the NFL goalposts waving a "John 3:16" sign. This verse serves as a summation of Christianity.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[1] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.