(July 13, 2013 at 3:02 am)Dionysius Wrote: It addressed the Christian exegetical concept, God is Love, which you said was an irrational attribute. The Love of God is a psychological disposition which is experienced by the believer when they are freed (free themselves) from the structural (socio/environmental) limitations of conditioned thinking. The idea is encapsulated in the statement "Perfect love casts out fear." That is to say when a person is freed from the illusory constraints attendent to personality (values; social etiquettes) which are maintained by fear of one sort or another then the resulting consciousness is similar to that described by Buddhism as Samādhi. A compassionate, yet detached feeling of bliss or serenity.
I suggested that a great deal of confusion arises from extracting this meaning in the text because a mystical or suprarational dimension is not figured into contemporary Christian or secular exegesis. Rabbinical Judaism, however, acknowledges this latent potential in Pardes
Actually, what I said was that it was an irrational proposition - not an irrational attribute. If it was being argued that love was an attribute of god rather than being god, then that formulation would atleast make sense, however untrue it might be.
