• @Balthazar
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    Christian theologians believe in the impassibility of God, which means that God does not have emotions as humans do. Then biblical texts where emotions are attributed to God are explained as anthropomorphism - God using human language to communicate his nature and actions.

    • @meco03211
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      121 day ago

      How the hell do they explain his “love” then? Seems like they create more problems than they fix with this crap.

      • @Balthazar
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        61 day ago

        “Love” in the scriptures is typically a verb, e.g., “God so loved the world…” It describes an action that God does, not a feeling. God’s love is his acting in a loving way towards undeserving people.

      • @Buffalox
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        Exactly, that’s a perfectly theologian explanation, it sounds good, but doesn’t stand the least bit of scrutiny.
        Already the creation story on the first pages says god created light and saw the light is good. How is it good without subjective emotion?
        How exactly are gods emotions supposed to be different. Does good mean something different to god?

        Religion is nothing but worthless bullshit from start till end.

        • @[email protected]
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          To play gods advocate, good isn’t an emotion. Good is a state of being, that could be defined and then other things can be judged by that definition to be good or not.

          Subjective? Sure. But no emotion needed for subjectivity.

          And to answer your rhetorical question: yes, they define it by god likes it equals it being good. Which is just the ultimate dictatorship, but Christians probably wouldn’t even disagree with that notion, since that is exactly what is written in the Bible.