None of which demonstrates that God actually changes His mind. It's a figure of speech projected on Him by myth creators showing human contingency planning.
We have no other proof, one way or other, then what the Scriptures say.
We are not deists. We do believe that our God interacts with the world. That interaction will cause changes for God. We believe God is emotional. Emotion implies God is reacting to something. Buddhists have a problem with the Christian God because God is so Hot, not cold in God's interaction with the world.
We have no other proof, one way or other, then what the Scriptures say.
We are not deists. We do believe that our God interacts with the world. That interaction will cause changes for God. We believe God is emotional. Emotion implies God is reacting to something. Buddhists have a problem with the Christian God because God is so Hot, not cold in God's interaction with the world.
We have, there is, no connection with God and the scriptures, no, not in the OT. Except by the Spirit yearning behind them. Yearning with, alongside human cultural evolution.
I am a deist but for that thanks be to God in Christ. I do not believe that God interacts with the world in any effable way. Any. His interaction in Jesus and the infinity of incarnations included: that is ineffable too. Mysterious. That will feed back on God but not change Him in any qualifiable way. I don't believe that God is emotional as we are. Emotion is unexamined thought, reflex. God's psychology is not ours. I believe that He is omnipathic, yes, but how He feels about what He feels we haven't the faintest idea. How does the hand feel that holds us infinitely all and each? Transcendently and immanently? How does the hand react?
The hand, the invisible hand, fits around us, beneath us. All of us and each of us. It pulses with our pulse. Its heat matches ours. But we cannot feel that or see it in the world. God is neither hot nor cold - a figure of speech like all Biblical references to His 'interaction' - in His interaction with the world except in the Spirit.
We have no other proof, one way or other, then what the Scriptures say.
We are not deists. We do believe that our God interacts with the world. That interaction will cause changes for God. We believe God is emotional. Emotion implies God is reacting to something. Buddhists have a problem with the Christian God because God is so Hot, not cold in God's interaction with the world.
We have, there is, no connection with God and the scriptures, no, not in the OT. Except by the Spirit yearning behind them. Yearning with, alongside human cultural evolution.
I am a deist but for that thanks be to God in Christ. I do not believe that God interacts with the world in any effable way. Any. His interaction in Jesus and the infinity of incarnations included: that is ineffable too. Mysterious. That will feed back on God but not change Him in any qualifiable way. I don't believe that God is emotional as we are. Emotion is unexamined thought, reflex. God's psychology is not ours. I believe that He is omnipathic, yes, but how He feels about what He feels we haven't the faintest idea. How does the hand feel that holds us infinitely all and each? Transcendently and immanently? How does the hand react?
The hand, the invisible hand, fits around us, beneath us. All of us and each of us. It pulses with our pulse. Its heat matches ours. But we cannot feel that or see it in the world. God is neither hot nor cold - a figure of speech like all Biblical references to His 'interaction' - in His interaction with the world except in the Spirit.
Martin: You say God is omnipathic and yet you say you are a deist. Those two terms are oxymorons. A Deistic God would not have sent God's son into the world to show how much God cares for us.
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We are not deists. We do believe that our God interacts with the world. That interaction will cause changes for God. We believe God is emotional. Emotion implies God is reacting to something. Buddhists have a problem with the Christian God because God is so Hot, not cold in God's interaction with the world.
We have, there is, no connection with God and the scriptures, no, not in the OT. Except by the Spirit yearning behind them. Yearning with, alongside human cultural evolution.
I am a deist but for that thanks be to God in Christ. I do not believe that God interacts with the world in any effable way. Any. His interaction in Jesus and the infinity of incarnations included: that is ineffable too. Mysterious. That will feed back on God but not change Him in any qualifiable way. I don't believe that God is emotional as we are. Emotion is unexamined thought, reflex. God's psychology is not ours. I believe that He is omnipathic, yes, but how He feels about what He feels we haven't the faintest idea. How does the hand feel that holds us infinitely all and each? Transcendently and immanently? How does the hand react?
The hand, the invisible hand, fits around us, beneath us. All of us and each of us. It pulses with our pulse. Its heat matches ours. But we cannot feel that or see it in the world. God is neither hot nor cold - a figure of speech like all Biblical references to His 'interaction' - in His interaction with the world except in the Spirit.
Aye, we do.
Qualitative.