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PJM
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God has many “Natures” right? Are they “all good?”
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LilyM
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The human nature of Jesus is, by definition, not exactly the same thing as His divine or Godly nature - and so can’t be said to be God’s nature. It is hypostatically united with His divine nature though.
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PJM
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David you make a very valid point!:tiphat:
**PLEASE ALLOW ME TO change “natures” (you caught me:thumbsup
** to Attributes.So the question of the day is:
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God has many ATTRIBUTES… are they all “good”?**
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JDaniel
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Except that He reveals His attributes to us throughout the Bible. We didn’t make them up in the 20th century.
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Nepenthe
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You better hope you are right, if you believe in Heaven and Divine Mercy, etc, although I find the idea of a supernatural, all powerful being very unconvincing in general, I can kinda see that such a being might be malicious just a titch more easily. After all, nobody has really answered Epicurus convincingly.
However, I have mentioned my most-likely causal-related visualization before…a bunch of half-crazed grad students laboring to prop up their aging professor’s reputation, somehow coming up with a working universe, then flipping out and welding it somewhere inaccessible and agreeing to never mention it again.
Of course, I still have no evidence but of all the concepts of ‘Creation’ I find that one more likely, however still vanishingly. 
Don’t be too sure that we mere mortals could not possibly manage such a ‘feat’, and while sure,we’d be essentially omnipotent and even omniscient perhaps…but ‘good’? Eh, not necessarily so much.
Assuming something is so because you REALLY want it to be just cuts no ice - face-eating Lovecraftian powers sound easily equally likely to me as most representations of benevolent deities.
However, I have mentioned my most-likely causal-related visualization before…a bunch of half-crazed grad students laboring to prop up their aging professor’s reputation, somehow coming up with a working universe, then flipping out and welding it somewhere inaccessible and agreeing to never mention it again.
Of course, I still have no evidence but of all the concepts of ‘Creation’ I find that one more likely, however still vanishingly. Don’t be too sure that we mere mortals could not possibly manage such a ‘feat’, and while sure,we’d be essentially omnipotent and even omniscient perhaps…but ‘good’? Eh, not necessarily so much.
Assuming something is so because you REALLY want it to be just cuts no ice - face-eating Lovecraftian powers sound easily equally likely to me as most representations of benevolent deities.
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Blade_and_Blood
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None of us know… and if someone claims to, they shouldn’t be. At this point in Time, God can be anything. He could be everything and nothing. There and “not there.” Good and evil.
Just suggestions, but either way, it’s best not to assume, for the sake of God as an unknown, mysterious being that we can’t say we know. We can only believe and wonder.
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Just suggestions, but either way, it’s best not to assume, for the sake of God as an unknown, mysterious being that we can’t say we know. We can only believe and wonder.
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Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood
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ready
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Yes, the Holy Trinity is only good (as opposed to being some hetero-geneous mix of good and evil - or pure evil, like the devil is).
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