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Author Topic:   Does God have emotions?
Agobot
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Message 1 of 2 (486985)
10-26-2008 3:35 PM


I know that according to the Bible, God is an emotional being who likes to be worshipped. However, I would argue with any theist that if God had emotions, he would be awfully biased and subjective, i.e. he wouldn't be the just God the Bible portrays. Emotions are pretty misleading, so a true god wouldn't have emotions but just super intelligence, and everywhere i look i see evidence that if there is god, he doesn't feel emotions but only requires us to conform to the physical laws he created for the universe(i.e. the only rules are don't jump from an airplane without a chute, don't stay in a fire, don't stay under a falling object, etc.). AFAIK science hasn't unearthed laws of nature that punish child molesters or killers. Why are there no such laws if god has emotions? Making thousands of laws that govern every process of the universe, why would god omit to devise laws that punish child molesters through a process that would be dubbed by atheists a natural process/emergent property - like a lightning strike or a heart attack or something similar for everyone that kills a child.
Does God really feel emotions?
Edited by Agobot, : No reason given.

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10-27-2008 8:59 AM


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