Thank you for the reply Phat.
It has been a long time since we've exchanged ...
I was hoping you would respond and I hope all is well in your camp.
Phat writes:
Bailey writes:
Phat writes:
Logically, the way that I will approach this question is to ask if God ever needed to have or to at least experience emotions and, if so, what for?
Then do you feel God needs or has needed emotions?
To what end do you feel He needs or has needed them for?
Communication with humanity
This implies emotion is the language of the God.
In context, to evidence emotions may be to evidence Him.
To His credit, the fact that faith is required as evidence of such a theory fits His profile.
Must we simply better learn the language of emotion before such communication can take place?
In context, it would seem the case.
Wouldn't communication be handled better through spoken word?
Please expound.
Bailey writes:
Let me adjust and again posit ...
* Does justice and moral relativism exist outside of man's heart and mind?
Evidently they do not.
Yet I digress ...
Absence of evidence is not evidence.
* Can science, or any facet of knowledge, demonstrate in a testable fashion, so as to prove or refute beyond a reasonable doubt, that justice or morals have any place in the universe, apart from our hearts and minds?
Science has no place in determining the systematic order of pure conjecture ...
This is to imply it serves its purpose rather well within the confines of the physical world.
* Can science, or any facet of knowledge, rectify the relativity of morals and ethics, much less the relativity of love and hate, in our world?
I'd say not yet, with the exception of fringe science or faith ... this is obvious conjecture.
In conclusion, as science works from effect to cause, it must isolate some worthy evidence of emotion, outside of our imaginations, well before defining, or potentially locating, any corresponding laws that effect the material world.
It follows, as science can observe objective evidence to confirm, or even assert, that emotions exist apart from our imaginations, they may begin to explore, and further define, exactly what emotions are contrived of and their effects within nature.
Being this has not been accomplished; it remains as plausible that emotions are a supernatural force or a reality of the spirit alone.
Henceforth, emotions shall be placed in the napsack with sin, salvation, the God and all other faith based assertions.