God's Greatest Regret

[max-greece]

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.

[Mister Agenda]

Get this through your head, Drich: I am not omniscient. I do not know the future. Comparing my suspicions or predictions to your supposed God's certainties will always fail. I would be sorrowful because my foolish hope it wouldn't happen again would be dashed. If I were omniscient, I would never have had the hope in the first place, because I would know not only that IF she was around certain people she'd fall off the wagon (or cheat), I'd know when, where, and how it would happen. "In four months and 13 days, she'll fall off the wagon." "In two months and three days, she'll cheat with so-and-so." By the time it actually happened I would be emotionally numb, fully prepared, or just not care anymore. Your scenarios involve 'ifs'. More than one possible outcome. There are no 'ifs' in omniscience.

[Cinjin]

What does being 'perfect' have to do with feeling sorrow?

That's twisting the term 'regret' to your advantage there Drich. 'Sorrow' is a part of regret but only where it concerns your own actions.
Your god feels sorrow and regret over his OWN actions. Don't play it off like he was just having a blue monday.

[Bob Kelso]

Shit, made a mistake...

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[Cinjin]

What does being 'perfect' have to do with feeling sorrow?

That's twisting the term 'regret' to your advantage there Drich. 'Sorrow' is a part of regret but only where it concerns your own actions.
Your god feels sorrow and regret over his OWN actions. Don't play it off like he was just having a blue monday.

Afterthought ...
In addition to your god regretting his own creation, his "sorrow" as you put it was NOT because he felt bad for committing genocide ... no no, he felt regret because his creations weren't good enough. He seems to be completely fine with the death and carnage of it all.

One also has to wonder if your god felt regret AFTER he murdered everyone on the planet. I mean it seems pretty fair to assume that if he can regret an action that he said was specifically good (the creation), than it may be highly likely that he might regret committing genocide after the fact. My point is that with great power comes great responsibility and your god doesn't seem to realize this at all. "Hey, I think I'll just do a quick redo. Oh damn, there's a LOT of bodies floatin around. I better get rid of these before Noah starts getting nervous."