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🥰 he loves you, he just refuses to show it 🥰 (midwest.social)
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God is love just don't ask for the receipts

He's all powerful except for whenever

How many Jesus, the Living Embodiment of YHWH, does it take to change a lightbulb

buddy christ meme "i could definitely help you with that, i just won't"
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wholeheartedly agree with you. God is by definition unknowable (and doesn't care if you touch yourself or like anal stuff or like to do sexual things with consenting people of your own gender).

But the whole point of Christianity is that this still unknowable God came to us in Jesus as we can't go to him. So knowing Jesus is to know as much as we can about God (which is not much, but still more than nothing).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The mythos surrounding Jesus just feels like more of the same. Here we have an unknowable being sending us an envoy who is a part of them that we can have interactions with it. As a concept, it would be comforting and most likely sooth people who would be grappling with existentialistic dread, but it still doesn't make logical sense to me.

    Like I said this being would be so beyond us essentially that would be like you creating a small cell to go talk to the cells in your liver for you. But even then that's not a degree of magnitude of separation that would actually be an existence between us and any sort of central creation figure. That Central Creation figure would be so vast that there's no way their attention would even be able to comprehend the smallness of us.

    What I'm trying to argue is not that this God being chooses not to acknowledge us or chooses not to intervene in our lives but that they're so far beyond and removed from us that they COULDN'T do those things.

    And I know this is a very clunky analogy but do you care about the individual molecule on the tip of the nail of your toenail?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    The problem with your analogy is that it still supposes we can make analogies. Even saying « we can't say anything about God » is saying something about God… Technically I can't even say, even being Christian, that God exists. That's why I have no problem with the existence of different religions and philosophyies, all, from gnostic atheism to the smallest and strangest cult, and including my own religious tradition, are infinitely wrong about God (but as in maths, there are bigger and smaller infinities).

    So I can't be suprised when I learn that God cares about us in Jesus. I can't be surprised about anything about God, as any surprise would be coming from a preconception of mine.

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