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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper
You always try to put man's feelings and emotions and give them to God. Why is that? God is so far above us, and his purposes are so incomprehensible to us, that you only confuse the issue with these arguments.
4,815 posted on 04/06/2008 10:19:36 PM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: irishtenor; Forest Keeper
You always try to put man's feelings and emotions and give them to God. Why is that? God is so far above us, and his purposes are so incomprehensible to us, that you only confuse the issue with these arguments

I do? LOL! Talk about a thorn in your neighbor's eye and ignoring the log in yours.

There are posters here who call God "Daddy." Forest keeper says the disciples were like Jesus' family (Jesus didn't get along with His faily, and he denied His mother and his step-brothers), the Old Testament God is about as man-like as Zeus—powerful, moody, jealaous, biased, hateful of his enemies and excessively forgiving of "his" people, a very humanized Giant.

And I always "try to put man's feelings and emotions and give them to God?"

It is precisely Orthodoxy that considers God a supreme Mystery. God is "beyond" everything and all, including our comprehension and words. But we see God only through Christ's humanity. It is only in His humanity that we can relate to God personally, to tlak to him, to ask him, to thank him, to presume that he cares, that he loves us, that he hears us, etc. These are all man's feleings we give to God.

But, we are reminded that even in his humanity, Christ is nothing like the God of the Old Testament. And he is also nothing like the rest of humanity. No one expected the King of Kings to be born of a virgin, unwed teenager, in poverty, and to die as He died, because we have this preconceived notion how God should be.

4,819 posted on 04/07/2008 5:35:28 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodox is pure Christianity)
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