To: kosta50; Kolokotronis; irishtenor; blue-duncan; Mad Dawg; HarleyD; stfassisi
"Pleasing God" is an anthropomorphism. It is a figure of speech, perhaps even a wish. Just as we can't do enough to earn our way into heaven, there is nothing we can do that's sooooo great as to please God (if God were subject to pleasure). If God cannot be pleased, in contradiction to more than 100 verses in scriptures, then He is a machine and impersonal. Such a God would be no more than a supercomputer. Glory be to God that His word says just the opposite.
5,374 posted on
05/06/2008 6:22:15 PM PDT by
Forest Keeper
(It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
To: Forest Keeper; kosta50; Kolokotronis; irishtenor; blue-duncan; Mad Dawg; HarleyD; stfassisi
“If God cannot be pleased, in contradiction to more than 100 verses in scriptures,”
How can He judge and determine rewards (”Well done thou good and faithful servant”) if He is not pleased.
To: Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis; irishtenor; blue-duncan; Mad Dawg; HarleyD; stfassisi
If God cannot be pleased, in contradiction to more than 100 verses in scriptures, then He is a machine and impersonal No, just supernatural. God doesn't seek pleasure. We believe God wants us to be virtuous and moral beings and to obey His will. Those whose will is in harmony with God's will are sinless, Christ-like. The Bible verses that speak of God being pleased are either anthropomorphism, or allegory.
5,377 posted on
05/06/2008 9:15:56 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodox is pure Christianity)
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