Does God have a Sense of Humour?

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The existence of squirrels in no way shows that God has a sense of humor. To say that it does is simply rediculous.
 
The Arab lands got all the Oil…its everywhere around ---- Except the Jewish ‘promise land’ !
 
I’d say He does. Lightning struck St Peter’s two after the Holy Father announced he was stepping down. The conspiracy theorists are going crazy.
 
I can just imagine that he is laughing at that question right now.
 
No.

God can not find anything to be funny. Things are funny because there is an element of surprise, something not quite expected has to happen for something to be funny. God knows everything at all times, nothing can be surprising to him.

God does however have joy. He can laugh out of joy.

God laughing is not quite accurate. We are a reflection of God. We love, we feel joy, we laugh, these are material analogues of something God experiences but God’s is the true form, ours is but an image.
 
JohnAlexander said:
No.

God can not find anything to be funny. Things are funny because there is an element of surprise, something not quite expected has to happen for something to be funny. God knows everything at all times, nothing can be surprising to him.

God does however have joy. He can laugh out of joy.

God laughing is not quite accurate. We are a reflection of God. We love, we feel joy, we laugh, these are material analogues of something God experiences but God’s is the true form, ours is but an image.
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Finally someone who actually gives a solid theological answer rather than an answer based on how they feel. 👍
 
JohnAlexander said:
No.

God can not find anything to be funny. Things are funny because there is an element of surprise, something not quite expected has to happen for something to be funny. God knows everything at all times, nothing can be surprising to him.

God does however have joy. He can laugh out of joy.

God laughing is not quite accurate. We are a reflection of God. We love, we feel joy, we laugh, these are material analogues of something God experiences but God’s is the true form, ours is but an image.
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This is a very thought provoking post.

I am guessing here but I would think that because God created everything, a sense of humour would be something that He approves of and which He deems worthy.
 
JohnAlexander said:
No.
these are material analogues of something God experiences but God’s is the true form, ours is but an image.
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Thank you for reminding me of this, but I have a question.
Since last thinking of this, my life has changed drastically. I really question my existence. I have finally asked “WHY” of Him. I am so lost and yet still with Him.
In short, I am really miserable and sunk and a bunch of other adjectives that I cannot even think of. They may not even exist. What is this an image of? I am truly curious because I feel like mine is a dead life. An oxymoron if ever there was one. And I hate feeling this way.
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As quite an introvert, every time I’m put into an awkward situation (like sitting in a circle in RCIA), I think God is messing with me. He definitely has a sense of humor.
 
Limerickman said:
I am guessing here but I would think that because God created everything, a sense of humour would be something that He approves of and which He deems worthy.
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Of course he approves of humor, however, he does not himself have a sense of humor (in the divine nature anyway).
 
Humor is a good thing. God is the father of all good things. It can help us survive bad times, improve and strengthen friendships, and help us cut through the layers of human falsehood and see the truth that lies beneath. It can be turned to badness like any good thing, but evil is not creative, it can only pervert the good.

Jesus clearly had a sense of humor, and moreover it was very much a guy’s sense of humor. He told the joke about pointing out the mote in someone else’s eye when you have a plank in your own, a funny image and expression which has the rhythm of a joke. (I always wondered if he heard that expression originally when he was sweeping up in Joseph’s shop as a kid while Joseph and the other carpenters in the village hung out together and cracked jokes. It sounds like a carpenter’s joke.) He used humorous exaggeration to make his points, which seems to be a long tradition in Jewish humor - I suspect He did not literally mean that one should cut one’s hand off if it was offending. He also made a kinda sorta pun with the meaning of Cephas. Punning is almost exclusively a form of humor that men do.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
Humor is a good thing. God is the father of all good things. It can help us survive bad times, improve and strengthen friendships, and help us cut through the layers of human falsehood and see the truth that lies beneath. It can be turned to badness like any good thing, but evil is not creative, it can only pervert the good.

Jesus clearly had a sense of humor, and moreover it was very much a guy’s sense of humor. He told the joke about pointing out the mote in someone else’s eye when you have a plank in your own, a funny image and expression which has the rhythm of a joke. (I always wondered if he heard that expression originally when he was sweeping up in Joseph’s shop as a kid while Joseph and the other carpenters in the village hung out together and cracked jokes. It sounds like a carpenter’s joke.) He used humorous exaggeration to make his points, which seems to be a long tradition in Jewish humor - I suspect He did not literally mean that one should cut one’s hand off if it was offending. He also made a kinda sorta pun with the meaning of Cephas. Punning is almost exclusively a form of humor that men do.
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and He liked parties, did He not?!
 
Arizona_Mike said:
…I always wondered if he heard that expression originally when he was sweeping up in Joseph’s shop as a kid while Joseph and the other carpenters in the village hung out together and cracked jokes. It sounds like a carpenter’s joke…
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Totally. And you know they were drinking Coors light while they were cracking jokes. Warm beer is undrinkable. So it must have been ice cold.
 
All good things come from God, so this would include humour. Have you heard of the Divine Comedy?
 
We cant attribute human qualities purely to God. But it is relevant when we consider in an anthropomorphic way, especially in the person of Jesus, the Word (God) Incarnate.
 
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