(March 14, 2018 at 9:37 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(March 14, 2018 at 4:18 pm)Drich Wrote: Holy Crap George, do you have an abridged version?
You didn't understand the unabridged version, so I strongly doubt you would understand a condensed version. With regard to your objections, I'm reminded of the remark that, "That is not only not right; it is not even wrong." Regardless, I'm not feeling particularly well, so I'm going to defer a longer response to another time. I would only comment that in your rush to refute my position, you failed to first acquire an adequate grasp of what I was saying.
(March 14, 2018 at 6:31 pm)He lives Wrote: I would first like to address something in your comment I disagree with. You said: "God isn't a biological being" and "...and not something an immaterial spirit would have?" The spirit is noe immaterial as you might expect. It is made of matter but it is a much finer matter. Out spirits consist of a much finer material and are not subject to the same physical laws that our mortal bodies are subject to, at least not all of them.
Now about God. God is indeed the father of our spirits. Like any other father he wants to correct his children and teach them. Why do we need laws? If there were only 1 living thing in the universe there would be no laws. There would be no murders, no theft, no anything to be needful of a law. However we have laws to protect our rights and the rights of others. God gave us laws so we could learn to become like he is. The laws teach us love, charity, faith, benevolence, honesty, humility, chastity, righteousness, etc. Our bodies were designed with every organ, muscle, bone, gland, etc. to work together. The body dies when the spirit leaves it for good and returns to God who gave it. It is by faith that miracles happen. When miracles cease it is due to lack of faith. I hope this helps. I am not sure if I covered all of the questions, if not please let me know.
Thank you for your response.
...Or maybe your view of Christianity is wrong, and you are trying to understand what I said through your view or rather what you think I should have said to you filtered through your lens of a 'moral God'/what makes this god's morality better than anyone else..
When in truth morality, right/wrong has nothing to do with God, as God does not hold us to a standard of 'morality' to judge us worthy. He hold Christ to that standard as we put on Christ's righteousness in place of our own.
Your whole God view is based on a jeudeo/catholic understanding of a works/Deeds based God. Where obedience and works yield righteousness. Again not the case. If you understood this to be not the case you would not have sought to rectify the morality of God over that of any other standard. As God's law/morality only serves one purpose, and that is to point out sin in the unrepentant, and to judge them. Once one repents the law becomes moot to us as t is moot to Christ.