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A good heated discussion

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
That means God is not love personified, but is a noun of somesort (fill in the blank) that gives love?
I do not think so. People who are in God's image are able to love and the love they show cannot be said to "come from God". Love builds up. God builds up righteousness. People build up unrighteousness by their crooked love.
 

Thuli

Member
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@Thuli

LISTEN: God is not an entity. Okay?
Why refer to Him as a He? He has no name. No pronoun. That confuses your definition of God.

That is point on. God is not made up of anything, everything IS made out of God.
Panthiesm? They are the same. If everything is made up of God that means God IS everything. As such, He is made upnof what He is.

God is alpha and omega, quite literally.
Which means? If He is everything and not an entity, is everything the Alpha wnd Omega?

There is no "is". God is not made up of anything, that's why he can become anything.
Now thats confusing. He can become something He is not made up of? Who is He in this statement if not everything? What makes God, God to you if He "is" not anything?

There are no barriers for him.
Being "He" is the Alpha and Omega, true. That only explains His characteristics. How do you put adjectives on something if there is no noun?
I used He in response to you. I used he because you might not have caught the idea if I called him "it" or even "Jerry, Bob or Thomas". I use He Because you and other in this discussion refer to him as he. I can call it a "she" if you want, or even "My big toe". What we call him (it, she, Bob, Jerry, Jane, my big toe) does not change what what it is. Your third question is excellent and the answer is yes. Simply yes.

Third question: He can become something he is not made up of? Who is He in this statement if not everything? What makes God, God to you if he is not anything: He is everything. By my saying he is not anything, I mean anything in particular. How can you be everything but also be one thing? This is confusing if you don't open our mind to the possibility of it. He is not anything in particular, he is everything in particular. (Except man made things such as a cellphone)
 

Thuli

Member
I do not think so. People who are in God's image are able to love and the love they show cannot be said to "come from God". Love builds up. God builds up righteousness. People build up unrighteousness by their crooked love.
Yes, this is true. But whatever you feel, he is capable of feeling.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Actually The Word of God might not mean God's communication with the Earth but might mean God's promise of a righteous house.
G-d did make communications with truthful Jesus and through him to his people, but we see only its glimpses in the NT Bible. We have to sift right from the wrong in it. That is always the message from G-d that people become righteous. It is a global message for all the regions and all peoples of the world, a promise made with every prophet whether Israelite or non-Israelite.
Regards
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
What force if not God's? What other "force" is there?
Another force did it. It might be a person, an animal or the weather. It might be gravity that did it. Or fire. Weapons are not God's invention.

There is centrifugal force.

Every force there is originated with God. But not every force IS God. Let's just say everything that exists came from God's word BE! OK? Now, you say a word please. Is the word you? Some of us would fill two universes if every word we spoke or wrote was us.
 

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
I do not think so. People who are in God's image are able to love and the love they show cannot be said to "come from God". Love builds up. God builds up righteousness. People build up unrighteousness by their crooked love.

That last part is harsh. Humans in their true self arent crooked.

If I can rephrase this in English terms:

Is God a noun (person, place, or thing) or an adjective (what describes a noun such as love, hate, orange, tall, powerful, all knowing)?

If He is a noun, then He is either a person or thing (regardless of the pronoun: He, Him, She, Her). As such, He "gives" love, has love to give, but not love itself because love is a adjective not a noun.

If "He" is an adjectice He does not give love. He Is love. So when I love my wife, that love is not an adj to describe how I feel about her. That love is God so what joins us together is God (love). It is not a noun. Its a decriptive word in this context.
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Now here is where I am confused. I read thuli and you refer to love as if it is a noun. Love is the "alhpha and omega"; @Thuli "HE created all of our most basic emotions which are: Love and Fear."

This is confusing to talk as if love is a noun.

My question is:

Is love an adjective that has been personified into a noun. (Is love-adj- that has been personifed into a noun-God)?

Or

Is the noun A adj. not an adj. that describes the noun?

Is God love and not love as a description of who God is in and of Himself independent of descriptions?

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In other words, am I (noun) an adjective (love)

Or

Am I (noun) someone who is described by an adj. (Love)

Without being the adj. Love itself?

Best I can explain it to both you and @Thuli
 

Thuli

Member
There is centrifugal force.

Every force there is originated with God. But not every force IS God. Let's just say everything that exists came from God's word BE! OK? Now, you say a word please. Is the word you? Some of us would fill two universes if every word we spoke or wrote was us.
The only other force God created that truly comes from him is the soul. Who possesses the soul? Us. Any word or thought or action you make, say, think does not necessarily be who you are, but it represents you. If YOUR words do not represent you ,then who do they represent?
 

Thuli

Member
Loev
That last part is harsh. Humans in their true self arent crooked.

If I can rephrase this in English terms:

Is God a noun (person, place, or thing) or an adjective (what describes a noun such as love, hate, orange, tall, powerful, all knowing)?

If He is a noun, then He is either a person or thing (regardless of the pronoun: He, Him, She, Her). As such, He "gives" love, has love to give, but not love itself because love is a adjective not a noun.

If "He" is an adjectice He does not give love. He Is love. So when I love my wife, that love is not an adj to describe how I feel about her. That love is God so what joins us together is God (love). It is not a noun. Its a decriptive word in this context.
--

Now here is where I am confused. I read thuli and you refer to love as if it is a noun. Love is the "alhpha and omega"; @Thuli "HE created all of our most basic emotions which are: Love and Fear."

This is confusing to talk as if love is a noun.

My question is:

Is love an adjective that has been personified into a noun. (Is love-adj- that has been personifed into a noun-God)?

Or

Is the noun A adj. not an adj. that describes the noun?

Is God love and not love as a description of who God is in and of Himself independent of descriptions?

--

In other words, am I (noun) an adjective (love)

Or

Am I (noun) someone who is described by an adj. (Love)

Without being the adj. Love itself?

Best I can explain it to both you and @Thuli[/QUOTE
Love is a relative noun, not an objective or regular noun. Love is relative to fear.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
The only other force God created that truly comes from him is the soul. Who possesses the soul? Us. Any word or thought or action you make, say, think does not necessarily be who you are, but it represents you. If YOUR words do not represent you ,then who do they represent?
That is an excellent question! My words DO represent myself. It is called being honest. There are some here whose words represent their religion. Some people's religion is the written word. Some people's religion is other people's understanding of other people's understanding.....
 

Thuli

Member
Past all that. Past religion. Past race. Past physical distictions. Your words, thoughts and actions represent who you are here and now.
 

Thuli

Member
I wanted to ask earlier on, I'm not sure who but someone included death as one of the world's calamities. Why is that?
 
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