Humans anthropomorphize pretty much everything around us with varying levels of accuracy. I’m fairly certain that my dog and cat feel anger and love in a very similar way to the way I do. I’m pretty sure plants really don’t, but they might a little bit more than a storm cloud. However you apply that to your spirituality or your perception of that of others is going to be a highly personal experience for you.
Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
zuckey78@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Who can personify the ultimate? Be wary of those who claim the authority to describe it as such…
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Because we apply human traits to God, and because being emotionless doesn’t necessarily indicate being higher than someone else.
In most traditions, God is incomprehensible to humans. Polytheistic religions break God down into multiple Gods or Goddesses with different characteristics, which is how they explain all of the events assigned to God. Lightning happens because of Zeus, etc.
For religions that don’t break God down into different aspects, it’s one of those things that kinda justifies itself. Bad things are happening so God is mad, if God is mad he has to have a good reason because he’s omnipotent. That’s where the faith part comes in.
Abrahamic religions especially have a father/child or teacher/student dynamic between God and humans. A major negative of the Fall of Man was that we had separated ourselves from God and could no longer could wander the Garden of Eden.
The implication is that God knows more than us, and to have faith that he acts for the good of humanity even if we don’t understand in our limited knowledge.
We like to think God cares about us.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Aren’t we as humans proving every year that goes by, that no matter how much power and knowledge you amass, you can still be an evil, childish, asshole? God is just a little further along that dotted line. He’s got all the power and knowledge. This doesn’t make him mature or good.
Zephorah@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Religion is a primitive means of governance. Check out the Books of Laws in the Old Testament. This is literal civil code for the time lightly veiled as something mystical.
The problem is, the bigger a population becomes, the less wieldy religion becomes as a means of governance. It’s why cults work but the state of Iran (as one example) is rife with dissension and horrible enforcement laws. Too many people for stable governance via religion. Factions, insurgents, defectors will abound.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Who told you God is omnipotent and above humans? Who told you he or she has emotions, or smites or becomes upset or wrathful?
Any God worth naming as such is so beyond such concepts as to be entirely inscrutable. It’s people that ascribe such characteristics, usually to influence other people. In any case, it comes from an inclination to anthropomorphize the unknown, to rationalize non-human phenomena through a familiar human lens. The conflict isn’t in God, it’s in God’s self-appointed biographers.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Genesis 1:27
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.“
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
If god is Jewish what did he use to circumcise himself?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
God can’t be described in the terms of man so they give him human like traits to try and understand him. That would be my logical take if I believed in magical sky daddies.
muse@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Because many people would rather believe that someone is in charge of natural disasters and suffering. Some take it further as a pretense for convincing their peers to remove competitors for resources.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
God does not exist - and even if they do exist, they have about as much consideration for the human race as we as a species have for paramecium
Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sounds like you want God how they’re portrayed in Druze: The Druze conception of the deity is declared by them to be one of strict and uncompromising unity. The main Druze doctrine states that God is both transcendent and immanent, in which he is above all attributes, but at the same time, he is present.[188]
In their desire to maintain a rigid confession of unity, they stripped from God all attributes (tanzīh). In God, there are no attributes distinct from his essence. He is wise, mighty, and just, not by wisdom, might, and justice, but by his own essence. God is “the whole of existence”, rather than merely “above existence” or on his throne, which would make him “limited”. There is neither “how”, “when”, nor “where” about him; in this way, he is incomprehensible.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why do you think emotions make you inferior?
That sounds like insane cult shit TBH
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Because it’s God’s nature? Sorry, but this seems like a pretty weak gotcha. The “Can God create a stone that he himself cannot lift?” is much better. This one is like asking “Why, if electrons present particle characteristics, do we don’t know (precisely) where an electron is at any given time?”. It’s just their nature, there is no reason behind it.