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1 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | Greekbabe132 | 149369 | ||
God- by Langston Hughes I am God- "Without one friend, Alone in my purity World without end. Below me young lovers Tread the sweet ground- But I am God- I cannot come down. Spring! Life is love! Love is life only! Better to be human Than God-and lonely." By the end of the Old Testament, God is far removed from the human scene. Can we prove that the charactetization of God in the poem is true? or no? |
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2 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | JCrichton | 149375 | ||
Hi, Greekbabe132! The problem here is that the poem was written by a creature who's lonelyness inspired him to seek spiritual oneness with His Creator... God is Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent... He experiences us before we are conceived in our mothers' wombs, He searches us to the most infinite speck of our being, He dwells in each Believer, He is both Eternal (unchanging) and transcendant (able to leap...echo system, time constraints, planes of existence...), He created all that exists (both invisible and visible) and He keeps everything in its place... Some people boast about wearing several hats and being so busy that they need several cell phones in order to keep on top of things... His little job is to maintain the universe, keep track of humanity, listen to all the prayers, petitions, and complaints of both His servants and the hypocritical who deny His Authority when times are good and scream for His aide when things are bad... and then there's the Remnant (that group of Hebrews that still believe and obey)... Lonely? Only in the sence that deep inside we, humanity, long for His companionship! God Bless! Angel |
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3 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | Mommapbs | 151599 | ||
Greetings Angel - How could God every be lonely?! Nothing separates the Trinity, They enjoy perfect love and unity in community And in Christ, we do too! imo, only man experiences loneliness. Our loneliness perhaps is a good thing but all too often I suspect that many seek companionship from others and things that never satisfy the God-shaped vacuum in our heart that only He can fill. Blessings, mommapbs |
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4 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | JCrichton | 151659 | ||
Hi, mommapbs! You've missed my point completely: "we, humanity, long for His companionship!" It is this longing that can bring us to believe that God is lonely as He longs to be with us! "I suspect that many seek companionship from others and things" It is this emptiness, in us, that could cause man to think that God could ever be lonely... and you are correct, many seek to fill a void in their lives that only God can fill--unfortunately, Satan has taken the reigns and he leads humanity into all sorts of inverted doctrines (bad means good; good means bad)... so we search to satisfy our loneliness in everything and anything except God... and because, as human, we experience the suffocating tentacles of this vacuous feeling we call loneliness, we may suspect that, because we are created in God's image, God too experiences loneliness. God Bless! Angel |
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5 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | Mommapbs | 151669 | ||
Angel - The genesis of this thread questioned the nature of God. "Is God lonely?" I commend you for recognizing human loneliness as a symptom of the need for God, but let's be careful when we consider His nature. IMO, your answer: "Lonely? Only in the sense that deep inside we, humanity, long for His companionship!", has the appearance of goodness -man is lonely for God therefore God is lonely (for man), but is this what the Bible says? Does our desire or longing for God make what we think true? (Thy Word is Truth) See Jer 23:28 Thinking that because we are made in His image does not elevate us to be the same - apart from what God has revealed to us about Himself, I believe it is dangerous to ascribe human characteristics to the Godhead Is 55:8-9. Apart from the mind of Christ, our thinking is human, fallen and flawed. Kalos wrote:'God did not lack anything in Himself that prompted His creative act. He wasn't lonely or bored. To say such a thing about Him would be to imply He is not eternally self-sufficient and perfect.' (www.carm.org/questions/whydidGodcreateus.htm) To me, this makes God's love for us even more amzaing! Blessings, mommapbs |
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6 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | JCrichton | 151803 | ||
Hi, Mommapbs! Because we yearn for that which we are missing, we can come to believe that it is a reciprocal feeling... however it is not! If you notice my first expressions about God: "God is Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent..." anyone reading it would have to understand that in such a being there's no loneliness... Yet, we are creatures of habit and of feelings... sometimes projecting our failures/inadequacies on others and on things and animals... We have a tendency to think that if we feel something the object of that "feeling" is caught in the wake of our feelings... projecting loneliness, as well as other human traits, on to God is an error caused by those who seek to measure God in human terms and condition--yet His Ways are above our ways as high as Heaven is from earth... we can never equate God (lessening Him) to us/our "feelings." If you have read from my post something other than what I have attempted to convey to the originator of this thread, I apologize for not being clear enough... God Bless! Angel |
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