God is Love?

[_why me]

Oh, yes! Beautiful. Now I need to find a depiction of Psyche for my altar.

Love this!

I like it.

[_bcspace]

Sure. This is why many Christians, especially liberal ones, don't know God at all. He does get angry. He hates things. He destroys and pronounces doom on people. Etc. All that in combination with, as you say, the positive attributes.

This is also why many secularists, especially liberal ones, are tremendously relieved that there isn't any God to know. Who wants to know a God that isn't worth knowing?

By this very same logic of yours, you're not worth knowing. And it also shows that God can only be a man as nothing else could compete for man's respect.

[Guest]

When it was over, I mentioned to a couple of high priests my heretical thought that we diminish God when we restrict his attributes to only the one that we find most positive, and suggested that maybe God has all attributes, both "negative" and "positive" in their perfection.

How, then, do we determine who we should worship and who we shouldn't? If we can't conclude that God only has positive attributes, and no negative attributes, then how do we tell the difference between a good supernaturally powerful being and an evil one, like Satan, for example? Do we just worship anything we can't understand?

Why do you feel the need to worship someone/something other than your wife and kids?
Especially someone that is inconsistent, mean, vengeful, hypocritical, and who has no apparent ability to physically influence your life in any way whatsoever over and above what a person of average mental strength can achieve all by themselves.

[_LDSToronto]

God is judgmental. Unfortunately, it's that attribute that human beings emulate best.

H.

[_just me]

Sure. This is why many Christians, especially liberal ones, don't know God at all. He does get angry. He hates things. He destroys and pronounces doom on people. Etc. All that in combination with, as you say, the positive attributes.

This is also why many secularists, especially liberal ones, are tremendously relieved that there isn't any God to know. Who wants to know a God that isn't worth knowing?

AMEN!!!

If God loved us he'd give us universal health care.

God is judgmental. Unfortunately, it's that attribute that human beings emulate best.

H.

Truer words...

[_Justlooking24]

I think God's "love" is much different than what humans consider "love"

When you are thinking eternity and allmighty and allknowing than destroying whole races can be "love".

Even as humans "love" sometimes being mean or tough.

I get sick of always hearing the happy, happy, joy, joy side of God and little of the "obey or you will roast" God

[_why me]

Last Sunday in priesthood, the lesson was about the attributes of God, and as these things are wont to go,

(I actually came in at the end of the lesson because I had ducked out after Sunday school to go visit a friend whom I home teach who was recovering at home from surgery. He wasn't in so I made it back in time for the last 15-minutes or so of the lesson.)


Thoughts?

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

In your last two threads you come across like a saint. And I am sure that you are attempting to get hugs and kisses from members on this board. Gee what a nice guy consig is. Gee, isn't he great. He is my favorite boyscout.

Why go to visit him during church? Why not after church? And why mention it at all?

[_why me]

I think God's "love" is much different than what humans consider "love"

When you are thinking eternity and allmighty and allknowing than destroying whole races can be "love".

Even as humans "love" sometimes being mean or tough.

I get sick of always hearing the happy, happy, joy, joy side of God and little of the "obey or you will roast" God

I think that you are right. We live in an age of unaccountability. Cotten candy is very popular when it now comes to choosing a faith.

[_Drifting]

I think God's "love" is much different than what humans consider "love"

When you are thinking eternity and allmighty and allknowing than destroying whole races can be "love".

Even as humans "love" sometimes being mean or tough.

I get sick of always hearing the happy, happy, joy, joy side of God and little of the "obey or you will roast" God

I think that you are right. We live in an age of unaccountability. Cotten candy is very popular when it now comes to choosing a faith.

You mean 'light cotton candy'....right?

[_SteelHead]

God is a big super sized sandwich full of wrath, with a side order vengeance, drowned in a heap of destruction sauce.