How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the

[SpiritualBeing]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

 

[BobRyan]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

I have many neighbors and none of them go around killing people or condemning people to die.

Yet there is a judge in my town that is a very good man - but does that very thing when certain cases come before him. Justice demands it.

6000 years ago Adam and Eve turned over their stewardship of planet Earth to Satan. 2 Cor 4:4 Satan is the "god of this world". Decisions have consequences.

Even so - God restrains Satan from acting out Satan's "full agenda". Satan has only partial control at the moment. In the near future he will be given full control.

2 Thess 2: " 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved"

The Earth is rightfully Satan's -- Christ never argues against that point made by Satan "5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it." Luke 4 (KJV)

"5 And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish." NASB


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But in the special case of the righteous God does intervene for he declares that the saints have chosen His kingdom and not Satan's.

Job 1 "6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” 8 The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.” 9 Then Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land."

 

[bcbsr]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

You got it backwards. God is not in our image. We are in His image.

 

[HTacianas]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

It's not that God displays human emotion, but that since we are made in the image of God we display the same emotions He does. Our emotions are however a bit shallower than His.

 

[BobRyan]

It's not that God displays human emotion, but that since we are made in the image of God we display the same emotions He does. Our emotions are however a bit shallower than His.

And... we are not God.

It is just and right for the Police, the surgeon, the Judge to do certain things in their domain that it would be criminal for us to do.

 

[Kaon]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

Because spiritual beings are calibrated to actual cosmos perfection, as opposed to a romanticism of subjective morality that humans have. Perfection includes anger, and killing your enemies in justice if necessary. These are not "human" qualities; they are qualities of creation.

Most people question why the Most High God would command to kill off babies and entire "people", but when pointed to ENOCH or other alleged Gnostics that explain why He did what He did in detail, these references are waved away as fantastical.

At some point, the issue has to be addressed for what it is.

 

[trophy33]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

Its called anthropomorphism - human authors described God in human terms.

 

[eleos1954]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

all perfect spiritual being - remember He is this - He created us in His likeness.

God cares about relationship. He knows ... and we know ... that best relationship is centered in love. God is love.

1 John 4
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Sin is in the world. God hates sin (not the sinner). He hates what sin causes.

Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Because of sin and sin causes death ... He sent His Son Jesus to die in our place so that we may receive eternal life. Not only eternal life, but eternal life with Him and living in perfect harmony with Him in perfect love. Eternal life without sin.

We are born with a sin nature. We can't totally get away from it. And so we have the world we live in now. A lot of bad terrible things .... and some good things.

Sin is destructive ... and that is what God hates ... and yes ... upon the return of Jesus the earth and everything in it will be destroyed, necessary to totally get rid of sin, once and for all. Then He will make everything new and those who chose Jesus will be taken up with Him and changed into immortal sinless beings, for eternity.

The Return of the Lord

13Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

15By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

God Bless.

 

[1213]

God displays anger, pleasure, disappointment, regret and other human emotions. God destroys mankind and beast with the exception of the arks occupants, with the great flood and was driven by anger.

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be?

I think it is the opposite, people are image of God and people may have some characteristics of God.

God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27

I think God is not driven by anger. The flood came because people were evil and bad and evilness had to end. God’s judgment is righteous and good, unlike the judgments that people usually give.

 

[bling]

God is trying to communicate with us in words, feelings and actions we can understand.

 

[Tolworth John]

How can an all perfect spiritual being display human characteristics and still be regarded as the enlightened deity it is purported to be

Because he is without sin.