The Flood

[PeteZaHut]

Doesn’t the Bible say that God flooded the earth because he was sorry for the way he created man. I know God can’t make a mistake, so can someone explain this to me?

 

[buffalo]

Doesn’t the Bible say that God flooded the earth because he was sorry for the way he created man. I know God can’t make a mistake, so can someone explain this to me?

God was sorry for man’s free will choices.

 

[Ron_Conte]

God is immutable; He does not change, nor suffer, nor feel emotions. Scripture says that God regretted (making man) by way of a figure of speech, indicating the unfaithfulness of mankind to the purpose of his Creator.

 

[JeanneH]

God is immutable; He does not change, nor suffer, nor feel emotions. Scripture says that God regretted (making man) by way of a figure of speech, indicating the unfaithfulness of mankind to the purpose of his Creator.

Isn’t love an emotion? God loves us so he can feel emotions. If we believe that Jesus is God didn’t He suffer on the cross?JeanneH

 

[Ron_Conte]

Isn’t love an emotion? God loves us so he can feel emotions. If we believe that Jesus is God didn’t He suffer on the cross?JeanneH

Love is not an emotion, it is an act of will and intellect, an act of the soul, not of the body. God is Love, but certainly He is not emotion, therefore love is not emotion.

Also, the Church teachings that there are three theological virtues: love, faith, hope; these are not emotions but virtues infused at Baptism.

Jesus suffered in his human nature, but not in His Divine Nature. From the Council of Ephesis:

“In a similar way we say that he suffered and rose again, not that the Word of God suffered blows or piercing with nails or any other wounds in his own nature (for the divine, being without a body, is incapable of suffering), but because the body which became his own suffered these things, he is said to have suffered them for us. For he was without suffering, while his body suffered.”

 

[JeanneH]

Love is not an emotion, it is an act of will and intellect, an act of the soul, not of the body. God is Love, but certainly He is not emotion, therefore love is not emotion.

Also, the Church teachings that there are three theological virtues: love, faith, hope; these are not emotions but virtues infused at Baptism.

Jesus suffered in his human nature, but not in His Divine Nature. From the Council of Ephesis:

“In a similar way we say that he suffered and rose again, not that the Word of God suffered blows or piercing with nails or any other wounds in his own nature (for the divine, being without a body, is incapable of suffering), but because the body which became his own suffered these things, he is said to have suffered them for us. For he was without suffering, while his body suffered.”

Hi Ron,

Thanks for the education I appreciate it.
God Bless
JeanneH

 

[marymol]

unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/GodSuffers2.htm

’ The Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world’ - St.Paul’s words …

And we see the shadow of The Cross, all the way to The Beginning …

Now , the mystery may be , how saints talk about joy , in the midst of suffreings , when united with our Lord …

In the Bosom of The Unity of The Trinity, suffering too may be more like the fire of love …

 

[Ron_Conte]

unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/GodSuffers2.htm
’ The Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world’ - St.Paul’s words …
And we see the shadow of The Cross, all the way to The Beginning …
Now , the mystery may be , how saints talk about joy , in the midst of suffreings , when united with our Lord …
In the Bosom of The Unity of The Trinity, suffering too may be more like the fire of love …

It is contrary to the teaching of the Council of Ephesis to claim that the Divine Nature can suffer at all. Therefore, the article that you cite is in error. The teachings of Ecumenical Councils are required beliefs.

As for the quote from St. Paul:
[Revelation]
{13:8} et adoraverunt eam omnes, qui inhabitant terram: quorum non sunt scripta nomina in Libro vitæ Agni, qui occisus est ab origine mundi.
{13:8} And all who inhabit the earth worshiped the beast, those whose names have not been written, from the origin of the world, in the Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain.

The phrase ‘from the origin of the world’ refers to the names in the Book of Life, not to the slaying of the Lamb. The Book is described as being ‘of the Lamb who was slain’, and the book is described as being ‘from the origin of the world.’ It is not the case that Christ suffers forever. Suffering is a means to an end, not the end itself. There is no suffering in heaven for God or Christ in his human nature, or Mary, or the Elect.

 

[marymol]

Thank you for the correction !

Have heard of how Adam and Eve , being clothed in leather garments after the fall and the words of St.Paul ( apologies , unsure where exactly it is , in his letters - the mention ’ Lamb slain from the foundation of the world ’ ) prefigure our Lord’s sacrifice, in the timelessness of God’s Kingdom ; how , even after having foreseen all it would take to redeem us, He still loved us enough to create us !