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Are humans more courageous than God?

Which answer do you agree with more:

  • Certain humans have been more courageous than God

    Votes: 4 66.7%

  • God is more courageous than any human

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Total voters
    6
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Some people spent years hungry, sleep deprived, and tortured in concentration camps for taking a stand for what they believe to be right. Some people fought to the death, were humiliated, lost all friends, lost limbs, suffered permanent brain damage, and wound up in wheelchairs, or blind and deaf for life, doing what they believed was right. Is that more courageous than God? Why or why not?

Some people claim God laid down his life to atone for sins. Is that really courageous if you know what reward and glory you will have afterward? Plus, if you are God and the pain gets too severe, you can always make the pain go away or fill your veins with morphine and ketamine.

I'm going to say that humans have been more courageous than God, because humans can't will morphine into their veins or make pain disappear at will, and don't have any guarantee of what comes afterwards. Also, since humans don't know everything, that makes them more courageous than God imho

The answer to the poll is based on your definition of courage. Assuming God does exist.
 
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Humans can kind of will morphine into their veins through the endorphins released by meditation and fantasy, but it is quite limited compared to God who can just make pain completely cease!
 
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Pudding said:
Courageous: Not deterred by danger or pain; brave. Synonyms: fearless.

The God is very courageous. By looking at the story of bible, he is very courageous in continually making mistake and behave immorally and egotistical, but he still have the face to fearlessly and shamelessly call himself love, wise and the source of absolute moral. There might be some human beings who are as courageous as God like the description above, after all God create human in his lousy image.
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Is English your first language?
 
Earthling

Earthling

David Henson
I didn't vote because I don't think it's a fair question. What does God have to be courageous about? He has nothing to be afraid of.
 
Jumi

Jumi

Well-Known Member
If God were an antropomorphic being with humanlike thoughts, the question would make more sense. Is a mountain fearful of snow? Or calculus afraid of a human not understanding it?
 
sealchan

sealchan

Well-Known Member
PopeADope said:
Some people spent years hungry, sleep deprived, and tortured in concentration camps for taking a stand for what they believe to be right. Some people fought to the death, were humiliated, lost all friends, lost limbs, suffered permanent brain damage, and wound up in wheelchairs, or blind and deaf for life, doing what they believed was right. Is that more courageous than God? Why or why not?

Some people claim God laid down his life to atone for sins. Is that really courageous if you know what reward and glory you will have afterward? Plus, if you are God and the pain gets too severe, you can always make the pain go away or fill your veins with morphine and ketamine.

I'm going to say that humans have been more courageous than God, because humans can't will morphine into their veins or make pain disappear at will, and don't have any guarantee of what comes afterwards. Also, since humans don't know everything, that makes them more courageous than God imho

The answer to the poll is based on your definition of courage. Assuming God does exist.
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Does God suffer? If so, what sort of God is this? Can a god be omniscient and omnipotent and suffer?

To suffer in our human understanding seems to imply that we expect and unwanted outcome to be our fate. Is God subject to a fate that is outside His/Her/Its control?

Does God, at His "level", have the same sort of issues we have with the unfoldment of the consequences of our actions or the accident of our histories?

Since we mainly spend time with God as an imaginal exercise, I think that the answer to your question is an important way to understand how we each accept the conditions of our life and how we understand God as a being with whom we can truly have a relationship.
 
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