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Why The Bible God has human qualities?

Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
ΩRôghênΩ said:
we win again
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The real winner of a debate is the person who learns the most. You can't learn much if you're too concerned about winning though.
 
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Mykola

Member
Sunstone said:
The real winner of a debate is the person who learns the most. You can't learn much if you're too concerned about winning though.
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What are you talking about, guys? :)
What do you mean by victory here?
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
cardero said:
Why The Bible God has human qualities?
Because that is the way humans created Him.
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IMO, I can't see how a God that is concerned with humanity cannot be expressed in some kind of human metaphor. God does what humans can't, so many religions express God as one who cares (a human trait) about humans and acts (human action) on the behalf of humanity.
 
EnhancedSpirit

EnhancedSpirit

High Priestess
sojourner said:
Because applying anthropomorphic qualities to God was the best way ancient humans could understand and express God.
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that's kinda what I was going to say. When describing something unknown, one can only use 'known' things to compare it to. The limited knowledge of the material world, and limited vocabulary would have made it very difficult to explain abstract ideas.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
EnhancedSpirit said:
that's kinda what I was going to say. When describing something unknown, one can only use 'known' things to compare it to. The limited knowledge of the material world, and limited vocabulary would have made it very difficult to explain abstract ideas.
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This grossly overgeneralized statement may depend on what culture you are talking about. The Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Babylonians, and Egyptians were extremely more advanced than most people think - both in language and their knowledge of the material world. Interesting that the Indians were much less civilized (IMO) and had a more adequate langauge to express the transendental - perhaps the Chinese follow closely behind.

We should not judge the world by the Dark Ages of the West. It's a mistake that I see too often.

We're not so much advanced from the ancient Greeks and Chinese that we can put them in that kind of box.
 
EnhancedSpirit

EnhancedSpirit

High Priestess
angellous_evangellous said:
This grossly overgeneralized statement may depend on what culture you are talking about. The Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Babylonians, and Egyptians were extremely more advanced than most people think - both in language and their knowledge of the material world. Interesting that the Indians were much less civilized (IMO) and had a more adequate langauge to express the transendental - perhaps the Chinese follow closely behind.

We should not judge the world by the Dark Ages of the West. It's a mistake that I see too often.

We're not so much advanced from the ancient Greeks and Chinese that we can put them in that kind of box.
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I understand what you are saying, but wasn't higher education, and knowledge accessible only to a limited few? How would one describe God to the 'uneducated' majority?
 
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ProfLogic

Well-Known Member
jewscout said:
why does G-d have human qualities?

because the Torah is written in the language of men.
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Why do so many believe in these scriptures if it was written by men for men. I always say if you really want one to serve you, you do it yourself not through the manipulation of others. This is one more thing that the bible god had shown me, it can not do anything without humanity. In the creation it was lonely but it decided to creat living things which later it killed; except for as usual a selected group of people and 2 pairs of animals. This is illogical in my opinion. That is why the bible god is purely man's creation thus it has qualities of a man. The purpose is to easily manipulate the new followers and I see this in today's religions.
 
jewscout

jewscout

Religious Zionist
ProfLogic said:
Why do so many believe in these scriptures if it was written by men for men. I always say if you really want one to serve you, you do it yourself not through the manipulation of others. This is one more thing that the bible god had shown me, it can not do anything without humanity. In the creation it was lonely but it decided to creat living things which later it killed; except for as usual a selected group of people and 2 pairs of animals. This is illogical in my opinion. That is why the bible god is purely man's creation thus it has qualities of a man. The purpose is to easily manipulate the new followers and I see this in today's religions.
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reread my post...it was written the language OF man
I believe it is Divine revelation

but that is just my belief.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
ProfLogic said:
Why do so many believe in these scriptures if it was written by men for men. I always say if you really want one to serve you, you do it yourself not through the manipulation of others. This is one more thing that the bible god had shown me, it can not do anything without humanity. In the creation it was lonely but it decided to creat living things which later it killed; except for as usual a selected group of people and 2 pairs of animals. This is illogical in my opinion. That is why the bible god is purely man's creation thus it has qualities of a man. The purpose is to easily manipulate the new followers and I see this in today's religions.
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Religion with no contact with humanity would be pointless. It is illogical to you because you refuse to review all of the relevant data.
 
BruceDLimber

BruceDLimber

Well-Known Member
> Why The Bible God has human qualities?

I would humbly suggest that the question is backwards!

In fact, that at the outset (and if we retain and endeavor to develop and preserve them), humans have Godly qualities!

Peace,

Bruce
 
cardero

cardero

Citizen Mod
vbmenu_register("postmenu_473182", true); angellous_evangellous writes: IMO, I can't see how a God that is concerned with humanity cannot be expressed in some kind of human metaphor. God does what humans can't, so many religions express God as one who cares (a human trait) about humans and acts (human action) on the behalf of humanity.
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To many people, religious and nonreligious alike, would debate that GOD is without care but I can ascertain that GOD is not careless and I would also assume this goes for the way He expresses emotion. I am not saying that GOD is without emotion, I am saying that there is no need for Him to display or express them like humans. The more I have gotten to know GOD, the more I realize that humans will never achieve the clarity and the control over these GOD-like traits as long as we keep ignoring His emotions in favor that we hope He expresses them like we do.
 
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