(November 12, 2013 at 3:27 pm)Drich Wrote:(November 12, 2013 at 3:16 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Emotions are reactions. The idea of a legitimate emotional reaction to something you've literally seen coming for an eternity is absurd. But the people who were putting words in God's mouth didn't have the imagination to devise more than an arbitrary and murderous oriental potentate written large.
Let's say your wife is a recovering drug addict. She stays clean and sober so long as she stays away from certain people. Because in the past you know if she starts talking to old 'friends' she will fall back into her old ways.
Let's then say she ran into an 'old friend' taking your kid to a soccer game and fell off the wagon. Now even though you knew this would happen, do you feel any less sorrowful, or even angry just because you saw this comming?
What if instead of drugs she cheated on you. Let's say you knew if she meets up with a certain someone she does the mommy and daddy dance with someone besides daddy... would the foreknoweledge of your wife's future infedelity change the way you feel about it?
That's a terrible analogy. He couldn't know it would happen - he might suspect the possibility or even the probability but it is having his worst fears confirmed that would be the reason for sorrow or anger.
This is not supposed to be the case for God who KNOWS something is going to happen. For God what has happened, what is happening and what will happen should be the same.
It is as ridiculous for God to get angry over an event as it happens as it would be for us to suddenly get angry over an event that happened in the past.
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
