(January 16, 2014 at 8:04 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: If you're going to make a comparison of a relationship to God to sex would it help if you thought of God as a beautiful woman? God doesn't have a fixed physical form or gender and can be described in both ways. Though generally it's probably better to think of God as your other father/mother.
Given that the comparison I made was of rape, the rapist's appreciation of my looks is really not much of a mitigating factor.
Quote:Some mystics have described the experience of God in vaguely erotic terms though so that kind of works, see the Song of Songs in the Bible. Also of course sex with voluntary consent would be rape which is something God would like to avoid, you have to be up for it.
It would not be what he would like to avoid. The whole point of the comparison to rape is the options made available by both God and the rapist: you can voluntarily submit to my will or you can suffer the consequences. Like the rapist, asking God to just leave you alone and not bother you is not a valid option. You either get heaven or you get hell. There's no third option. This reflects the Christian belief that the victim is to blame for what the rapist ultimately decides to do, because the rapist offers the victim a 'choice' and gives them 'free will' to make it.
