(July 13, 2013 at 2:28 am)genkaus Wrote:(July 13, 2013 at 1:57 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Justice is a subset of love. It doesn't contradict it. Christians and Jews are saying this is the essence of this entity.
Wrong. Justice is a concept independent and qualitatively different from love. Justice is not an emotion and therefore cannot be a subset of love. The question of whether it contradicts or not doesn't even apply here.
(July 13, 2013 at 2:22 am)Dionysius Wrote: I think a great deal of exegetical confusion arises when the believer fails (understandably so) to acknowledge the possibility of a mystical (suprarational?) meaning which is often ambiguously overlayed within the text. To be clear I'm not speaking of bible code mumbo jumbo or the like but rather a meaning that takes on a translucent appearance - not readily noticeable and thus plausibly deniable but still relevant and contextually meaningful. For example (Pro 27:26) which ostensibly seems related to the valuation of livestock whilst simultaneously addressing the PoE.
In terms of the statement God is Love this has more to do with a state of consciousness; mental disposition, similar to the Buddhist notion of Samādhi where the mind, freed from the limitations of socio/environmental conditioning is afforded a momentary glimpse of the true self.
Is there a point somewhere in there?
Yes. You wrote,
(July 13, 2013 at 2:28 am)genkaus Wrote: Love is an emotion - not an intelligent entity. It'd make no sense to ascribe other qualities like just or benevolent to it.
And I addressed.
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