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civic
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Projecting again
civic
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You are a pagan Greek with your static god.
I’m a Christian not a Greek! Is God Static?
Posted on December 9, 2019Is God static, or dynamic? Is God a God of ‘feeling,’ or is He a God aloof? Clearly, according to Scripture, God is dynamic. Clearly, according to Scripture, God ‘feels’ and has emotion. But from early on in the Church’s tradition the theologians have felt it necessary, instead, to affirm that God is static and without emotion (i.e. He is ‘passionless’).
I’m a Christian not a Greek! Is God Static?
Is God static, or dynamic? Is God a God of ‘feeling,’ or is He a God aloof? Clearly, according to Scripture, God is dynamic. Clearly, according to Scripture, God ‘feels’ and has emotion. But from e…
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civic
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Whether theologians found Platonic speculation compatible with the gospel or incompatible with it, they were agreed that the Christian understanding of the relation between Creator and creature required “the concept of an entirely static God, with eminent reality, in relation to an entirely fluent world, with deficient reality”—a concept that came into Christian doctrine from Greek philosophy.[1]
Grow upYou are a pagan Greek with your static god.
I’m a Christian not a Greek! Is God Static?
Posted on December 9, 2019
Is God static, or dynamic? Is God a God of ‘feeling,’ or is He a God aloof? Clearly, according to Scripture, God is dynamic. Clearly, according to Scripture, God ‘feels’ and has emotion. But from early on in the Church’s tradition the theologians have felt it necessary, instead, to affirm that God is static and without emotion (i.e. He is ‘passionless’).
I’m a Christian not a Greek! Is God Static?
Is God static, or dynamic? Is God a God of ‘feeling,’ or is He a God aloof? Clearly, according to Scripture, God is dynamic. Clearly, according to Scripture, God ‘feels’ and has emotion. But from e…
civic
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The static god is your belief it’s time you face your Greek pagan theology
TibiasDad
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Static as in never changing, immutable not as in inactive.
As for thinking, does an omniscient person have to think? We think because we lack understanding or knowledge; we think because we’re trying to process information or distinguish between pieces of information. God has no such need.
We can only interpret God from a human perspective, thus we are prone to placing God on a human level, confining him to human limitations. We have to be careful to not talk about things beyond our understanding. (Job 42:3)
Doug
Well Doug you read into my words thinking my noting the simplicity of God according to classical theism was making God like man
You objected to it
Some people may object to the idea that all that is in God is God when a number of Classic thinkers included his attributes. Thus God's knowledge is as eternal as he and he was not free to do other than what was done
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The doctrine of divine simplicity teaches that (1) God is identical with his existence and his essence and (2) that each of his attributes is ontologically identical with his existence and with every other one of his attributes. There is nothing in God that is not God.
God without Parts Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysicsof God’s Absoluteness JAMES E.DOLEZAL
I don't think so
i stated
The fact is god created and experienced a change in his accidential properties and relations as well as having a before when he had not created. He also worked sequentially in creation and planned.
Things which are contrary to a timeless, simplistic static God
I see it as a disagreement not an accusation
well, have I not denied God was timeless. Of course I reject the classic view. Which btw originated from Platonic sources, not the bible.
Many other do as well
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS ARE UNIVERSALLY committed to the confession that God is absolute but they are not always agreed on how to characterize this absoluteness. Historically the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS) has been regarded as indispensable for establishing the sufficient ontological condition for divine absoluteness. Accordingly, the Westminster Confession of Faith 2.1 confesses both that God is “without parts” and is “most absolute.” But there no longer seems to be a broad consensus on the truth or usefulness of the doctrine of God’s simplicity. Indeed, the doctrine has been criticized and dismissed by many recent Christian philosophers and theologians alike on the grounds that its supposed theological benefits can be preserved by less recondite doctrines ibid
Allow me to say I both appreciate and respect you and I draw no pleasure from disagreeing with you
Would you disagree the bible pictures God as planning and reasoning?
civic
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Can activity exist with sequence and time ?
Doesn’t God declare His thoughts are far above our thoughts ?
And also come let us reason together ?
The mind processes things are you saying Gods mind has no process, sequence , reasoning or thinking ?
Good point Doug. Think about what? He knows all exhaustively
civic
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A denial of a mind that doesnt think, love, feel emotions or process ideas- static not dynamic . Back to Greek philosophy where your determinism originated with Augustine and copied by Calvin. Toss in Gnosticism for good measure.
You deny Gods immutability since God thinks , loves , changes His mind, repents , things never cross His mind and reasons in scripture.
Grow up
Wake up before he decreed to create he would not know what the future would be
There could have been creation or no creation
This is obvious
civic
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Projecting your static god onto me , don’t blame me for pointing out your contradiction with scripture and Gods immutable nature.
you are in denial
He decreed and he created
There was duration before he decreed and before his created
civic
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To anyone with a rational mind
Nonsense you pointed out nothing and ignored the obvious
Sorry if God had yet to decree to create the future was indeed open
i.e. unsettled
Hello
He could have created or not created
civic
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Sometimes people don’t think through what their theology actually teaches. When you point out the logical conclusions we hear the wolf cry out.
