Does God have pride and shame?

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Does God have pride and shame?

We do have some biblical backing to indicate that God is proud of himself and his other self Jesus.

We also have many humans now whom God would see as denigrating his good name. Notably Richard Dawkins.

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Now I do not know much about pride but it seems to me that if some person was lying about me, I would act. From this POV, one would have to say that God has no pride, otherwise he would use some of his well-known wrath against people like Dawkins.

Scriptures show God quick to anger and seek retribution against those who offend him. Yet in the case of multiple insults, he sits back and does nothing. Shame on God for being a pride-less sloth, if that is what he is doing.

Would you allow your good name to be smeared world-wide without acting? Not likely. Does that make God less responsible and moral than you?

Should God be ashamed for not standing up for himself?
Should his pride not move him to act against what he would know to be slander?

Regards
DL

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Why don’t you just make one thread about why you dislike christianity, and add all your stuff to that instead of making so many threads?

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It would be too long a list.

Regards
DL

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:laughing:

Aren’t you a gnostic Christian though? So what’s your belief system? How can you be a Christian and make fun of the bible, Christianity and the concept of God so much?

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We begin by recognizing how all religions begin. Here is a good scenario.

youtube.com/watch?v=06jF1EG8o-Q

We continue by recognizing that all belief systems are good for internalization which is what gives apotheosis.

Apotheosis then moves the seeker further up Jacobs ladder. Simply stated.

The rest really is just common sense. Something Christianity has little of in their theology.

thesongofgod.com/tgc/basic_beliefs.html

Gnostic Christians know that we can be enlightened thanks to our witnesses. We just also know that any myth or belief can trigger it.

My personal dislike of the Christian theology doe not prevent theists form using it. Morality is a separate issue to apotheosis.

Regards
DL