Does the Lord get lonely?
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Actually, my metaphor of God having a team has legs.
Jesus is the captain.
Peter and John are the opening bats. Paul, the big hitter.
Stephen retired hurt.
Nathanuel was the first allrounder.
This is a cricket metaphor.
Cup of Ruin will explain that all true Israelites instinctively know how to play cricket. (British Israelism)
There is, of course, a satanic counterfeit to this.
It is called baseball.
Jesus is the captain.
Peter and John are the opening bats. Paul, the big hitter.
Stephen retired hurt.
Nathanuel was the first allrounder.
This is a cricket metaphor.
Cup of Ruin will explain that all true Israelites instinctively know how to play cricket. (British Israelism)
There is, of course, a satanic counterfeit to this.
It is called baseball.
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I used to wonder the same. The answer I came up with: God lives through His children. As we discover and experience life, He does all over again, too. Do you have kids? When you first saw your toddler chasing after a butterfly, didn't you discover butterflies all over again? We, His children, are His joy and frustration, just as our kids on a smaller scale are ours.
What i posted earlier, I wasn't supposing that the trinity is actually 3 different beings. I do believe that there are different sides to God that accomplish different things( Christ and the HS) but they are all one together. it's a complicated thing i think, but as omni-everything as God is, no he does not get lonely.
Sure, he loves and is jealous, but he is not lonely. If everyone on this world stopped loving Him at the same time he would be anguished beyond all belief, but not lonely. That would imply that God needs someone elses attention to feel complete and that just the opposite, we need Him to feel complete. People will try to add too much of their human emotion to God, because God has many characteristics that we do like anger and love, but that does not mean we can attribute all of them. When it says " God is love" it means that quite literally. God is the all encompassing of love because before people were around he was still love. As CS lewis put it , if people were not around at the beginning of the universe, did God cease to be love? Certainly not.
Theres something so self sufficient about God that he does not need us to be fulfilled, but yet he wants us all the same and we should be grateful for that. if you want to argue trinity,, literal trinity, non-trinity, be my guest and do it in a PM, but not here. We should thank God that he isn't so flimsy that he needs someone else's approval to make Himself feel better.
Sure, he loves and is jealous, but he is not lonely. If everyone on this world stopped loving Him at the same time he would be anguished beyond all belief, but not lonely. That would imply that God needs someone elses attention to feel complete and that just the opposite, we need Him to feel complete. People will try to add too much of their human emotion to God, because God has many characteristics that we do like anger and love, but that does not mean we can attribute all of them. When it says " God is love" it means that quite literally. God is the all encompassing of love because before people were around he was still love. As CS lewis put it , if people were not around at the beginning of the universe, did God cease to be love? Certainly not.
Theres something so self sufficient about God that he does not need us to be fulfilled, but yet he wants us all the same and we should be grateful for that. if you want to argue trinity,, literal trinity, non-trinity, be my guest and do it in a PM, but not here. We should thank God that he isn't so flimsy that he needs someone else's approval to make Himself feel better.
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Lonely as of felling sad Yes "Never without company"
Matthew 26:36 "36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” 37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
40 Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless[e] I drink it, Your will be done.” 43 And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
44 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting?"
John 11: 35 "Jesus wept."
I believe so. Throughout the old Testament our Father has been hurt so much by disobedient children.
When one perishes.
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I really like your responce. you have a heart after Him whom created you "us" Every one should have the Holy Spirit and I pray that every one whom the Holy Spirit dwells in would speak to them with words to renew the mind and to put in that heart of flesh.
As even Jesus wept.
Much love form: Stephan a Christian soldiar whom cry's at time's
As even Jesus wept.
Much love form: Stephan a Christian soldiar whom cry's at time's
Are we not made in the image of GOD? How do you think we got all the characteristics we have? GOD is not only emotional for HE has repented for making man and then with utmost compassion by love and grace and mercy HE died so we might have everlasting life. SATAN had it correct the day he seduced Eve into the eating the TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL when he said we will be like gods. When you are all by yourself for a long period of time do you ever miss having people around even if you do not know them? We are like GOD in our emotions.
I believe GOD is lonely this is why HE made us to be like HIM but also to freely love HIM with our own devotion and will. Remeber angels are more like robots with no will and they are basically hard wired to serve GOD which is not genuine. SO YES, GOD desires our company we that CHOOSE to love HIM.
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That God is a God of relationship is obvious. But God does not need us. It is an aspect of His grace toward us that He desires fellowship with us. He did not create us out of any neccesity or lack in His nature. If anything I think He created us as an act of His justice. Satan said "I will be god." God convicts Satan by his own words. First, He creates a world in which He can demonstrate the nature of God. Then He reveals His nature in the incarnation, vicarious death, and victorious resurrection. God then pours out this grace to the world through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Finally, in the end, He hands over the reins of human society to Satan. Satan tries to live up to the revealed nature of God. He (Satan) creates a false messiah, a false Holy Spirit/witness/prophet, a false church, and a false theocracy. The results are disastrous, God pours out His judgement upon Satan first, and then on humanity, who have reshaped themselves into the image of their spiritual father, the devil. One paragraph history of the justice of God.
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