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To: Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis
Well, if God doesn't hate sin then how does he feel about it?

God feels? Is He subject to pleasure? Is He subject to passions? Is He subject to pride and desires? Does God need, is He deficient, unsatisfied?

I think Kolkotronis was trying to tell you that your idea of a God who is just "like us" except bigger and stronger and immortal, and subject to passions and pleasures just as we are, is not a Christian God, but a Hellenistic pagan god. The pagan Greeks humanized their deities, but in fact deified humaity.

The Bible says that our God is a just God, that He is a God of mercy, that he pours out His wrath on those whom He chooses

And I suppose you think God's justice is driven by the same necessities as human justice? An angry, and offended God, lashing out to satisfy His wounded pride. Is that how you see it?

76 posted on 01/02/2006 3:01:16 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
God feels? Is He subject to pleasure? Is He subject to passions? Is He subject to pride and desires? Does God need, is He deficient, unsatisfied?

I think Kolkotronis was trying to tell you that your idea of a God who is just "like us" except bigger and stronger and immortal, and subject to passions and pleasures just as we are, is not a Christian God, but a Hellenistic pagan god.

Matthew 3:17 - "And a voice from heaven said, 'This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.'" God needs for nothing, he is not deficient.

I do not at all think that God is "just like us", only super-sized. God is without sin, we are not, and neither were the pagan Gods. Gods ways are not our ways. I am saying that there are countless examples in the Bible where God shows expressions of love, mercy, wrath, dissatisfaction, anger, pleasure, etc. This does not make God a human-like figure in the way that you mean. How do you interpret away all of these verses?

91 posted on 01/02/2006 3:45:10 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: kosta50
The pagan Greeks humanized their deities, but in fact deified humaity.

Very good point Kosta. You're right in pointing out that the key focus on all pagan religions IS the deification of humanity.
359 posted on 01/04/2006 9:26:30 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
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