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Why, God? Why?!
RE: Why, God? Why?!
(February 17, 2018 at 2:18 am)Godscreated Wrote:
(February 16, 2018 at 8:53 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: I wanted to go fishing.  I experienced a desire for something that I wasn’t presently or currently doing.  Shouldn’t god already have, and already be doing anything and everything?  Why did god want to share love with other creatures?  Shouldn’t his love be self-fulfilling?  He’s god.

 Just because I wasn't presently fishing doesn't mean I needed it to fulfill myself.

You’re right.  It means you were wanting to be experiencing something (the act of fishing) that you were not presently experiencing.  You’re making this more complicated than it is.

Quote:God has already and has always been doing what He desires

If he always had it, and was always doing it, then he doesn’t have any wants, now does he?  How do you want something you already have?

Quote:That’s why He is omnipresent, He loved us before the actual creation and He also was there at the end of time before He actually created us.

Um, what?

Quote:Being omnipresent gives God abilities we can't even begin to understand

 Yet you seem to think you understand them well enough to tell me I’m wrong about them, lol.

Quote:and this is obvious by your continued insistence that He couldn't have been fulfilled when the Bible tells us He was self-fulfilled before the creation.

And if he was self-fulfilled before the creation, then he wouldn’t have wanted to create anything.

(February 16, 2018 at 8:14 am)Whateverist Wrote: Then I realized she was attempting to do a little Socratic teaching. 

If I’m the teacher, GC is the goofy kid in the back of the class, staring out the window at traffic and picking his nose.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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RE: Why, God? Why?! - by LadyForCamus - February 8, 2018 at 12:09 am
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RE: Why, God? Why?! - by LadyForCamus - February 8, 2018 at 12:41 am
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