Love me or else (Part Two) (Where is it now?)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, December 24, 2012, 21:16 (4140 days ago) @ David Turell


> > bbella: Maybe there is not a distinction, but maybe there is. As for suppositions, I dispersed man made ideas of what a God should or shouldn't be along with religious beliefs a number of years ago (as much as possible). As to why God can or cannot have a personality, why should creation itself (what some call God) have to have a personality? 
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> David: That is exactly my point. Religions have created a personality for God that they want him to have. They prefer that personality. It is all man made!
> -I am curious about this statement. The bible shows God with a full range of expression, from awe inspiring to frightening, from vengeful and jealous to loving and merciful, and yet you still think that we created the personality WE wanted him to have? Just earlier this week you and DHW were criticizing YHWH for not having the personality that YOU wanted him to have......just saying..--> David: That is how I envision God as being within all of this universe and also outside. That is why I am a panentheist and view God as a universal intelligence. At a quantum mechanics level, organized as a mind. Always existing.
> --So, an organized mind would be devoid of personality? Without personality, what possible motive could their be for doing anything other than simply existing? That is the trap of your logic. If you do not allow for God to have a personality, then there can be no motivation for doing anything at all, period, because motive arises from desire, and desire arises from a personality, self-awareness, self-identification. If you allow for the UI to have a personality, which is a necessary component, then you are stuck trying to explain or describe that personality.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.