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1 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | BradK | 151672 | ||
Hi Angel, I followed you up to your last point that, "God too experiences loneliness". Our suspicions or feelings are entirely separate from God on the matter of His Solitariness. Could you clarify? While we may "think" that God could be lonely, does scripture support this notion? If God experiences loneliness, then He is not entirely self-sufficient (as kalos noted). As A. W. Pink writes: "In the beginning, God" (Gen. 1:1). There was a time, if "time" is could be called, when God, in the unity of His nature (though subsisting equally in three Divine Persons), dwelt all alone. "In the beginning, God." There was no heaven, where His glory is now particularly manifested. There was no earth to engage His attention. There were no angels to hymn His praises; no universe to be upheld by the word of His power. There was nothing, no one, but God; and that, not for a day, a year, or an age, but "from everlasting." During a past eternity, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing. Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to Him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity. The creating of them when He did, added nothing to God essentially. He changes not (Mal. 3:6), therefore His essential glory can be neither augmented nor diminished." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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2 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | JCrichton | 151806 | ||
"Lonely? Only in the sence that deep inside we, humanity, long for His companionship!" Hi, BradK! Since you are the second person that has understood such terminalogy from the words above (though made as a contrasting thought to Gods Omnipotence--asserted at the beginning of the post, second paragraph), I can only conclude that I must be more basic when expressing my thoughts... What I was attempting to convey is that only our projection of our own feelings are being ascribed to God, hence the seeming loneliness of God--seeming loneliness: meaning that because we are missing something within our being, we tend to believe that God may be subjected to the same temperaments and conditioning as His creation! ...I cannot emphasize this more vigorously than as I said before: God is Omnipetent, Omniscient and Omnipresent! ...please accept my most humble apologies, if you have misunderstood the final thought on my previous post! God Bless! Angel |
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3 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | BradK | 151810 | ||
Hi Angel, Thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate it! That adjective, "seeming" makes all the difference:-) I didn't think you were saying that God is lonely. We have communicated in that both of us now understand what the other meant by what he said. If only others could take the time to do so... God Bless, BradK |
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4 | God being lonely? | Gen 1:1 | JCrichton | 151955 | ||
Hi, BradK! I understand whay you are saying... sometimes I wonder how Christians define "humble obedience," "serve one another," and "to live is Christ and to die is Christ..." When we speak, we are coming together, in Christ... to humble ourselves to God means to humble ourselves as representatives of Christ... so that 24/7 applies all of the times... We can better serve Christ if we adopt the Sermon on the Mount to our personal life and instead of being defensive when questioned or not found clear enough, we must surrender pride and ego to the Lord, and seek to be "peace makers" as this would demonstrate that we are children of God! If none of the above works... whenever facing a questionable issue we should take the opportunity to enhance our communication skills and our personal knowledge (as we analyze and restudy the issue)... I always welcome the opportunity to come into the Lord's accord with my brethren... my joy is complete when Christian come together in Him! God Bless! Angel |
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