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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; xzins; P-Marlowe; irishtenor; HarleyD; Alamo-Girl; ...
God could be completely dispassionate as regards our stay here. In fact, the eastern Church teaches that God is indeed dispassionate when ti comes to mankind.

Only someone who disregards Scripture could presume that God is dispassionate about His creation.

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." -- Hebrews 12:2

To paraphrase Goldie Hawn in "First Wives Club" -- "I'm an actress GOD! I've got ALL the emotions!!!"

5,873 posted on 09/11/2007 11:52:21 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Beautiful! Thank you!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16

Praise God!!!

5,874 posted on 09/11/2007 11:59:42 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; kosta50; fortheDeclaration; P-Marlowe; Quix; xzins
God is indeed dispassionate when it comes to mankind

Unbelievable. Someone who makes a statement like this has never cracked open the bible, or understood any it, if he has. God loved them so much that He gave His only Son to die for their sins.

Furthermore one thing that all the prophets reveal to us, over and over and over, is that God is sensitive and cares deeply about His creation. I don't know about you, but I often apologize to Him for all my stupidity, and it's great, I assure you

5,875 posted on 09/11/2007 12:27:54 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Ummm, wouldn’t you say that God was dispassionate about the bulk of humanity that He would throw into hellfire forever under Reformed theology?


5,877 posted on 09/11/2007 1:00:24 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Only someone who disregards Scripture could presume that God is dispassionate about His creation.

Amen.

Man was made in God's image and likeness and that includes emotions!

5,879 posted on 09/11/2007 1:06:52 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! - Lincoln)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; xzins; P-Marlowe; irishtenor; HarleyD; Alamo-Girl; ...
Only someone who disregards Scripture could presume that God is dispassionate about His creation

Your God may not be dispassionate, but a Christian God is. He is because He is impartial, and immutable. This is, of course, all alien to those who look at God through anthropomorphic eyes of the Old Testament and see God as a moody giant.

"God is good, dispassionate, and immutable. Now someone who thinks it reasonable and true to affirm that God does not change, may well ask how, in that case, it is possible to speak of God as rejoicing over those who are good and showing mercy to those who honor Him, and as turning away from the wicked and being angry with sinners. To this it must be answered that God neither rejoices nor grows angry, for to rejoice and to be offended are passions; nor is He won over by the gifts of those who honor Him, for that would mean He is swayed by pleasure. It is not right that the Divinity feel pleasure or displeasure from human conditions." (A. Kalomiros, "River of Fire") 

 

5,905 posted on 09/11/2007 2:14:32 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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