Re: The idea of God being omnicient / omnipotent confuses me
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God is love. Love is patient and kind. It is not envious, nor proud, nor boastful.
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ZJ was talking about the God of Chrisitian, Jews and Muslims.
The "Jewish God", at least according to the main-stream perceptions of him, is comlpletely the opposite of what you have just described above. This should be extremely clear to anyone who have ever read the bible (the old-testament, that is). Reading it and thinking that God is love (i.e, patient and kind etc) is crazyness. Of course if you think about love as a love of say some very very strict, proud, envious and almost psychotic father, this is more in accordance with God of the old-testamant.
(Just to be clear, I don't mean this as any kind of "criticism" on the "Jewish God". I know that people here are capable of seeing it that way, but no, I'm just stating the facts. And I kind of like this specific "bearing-a-grudge-God" better anyway... The God=Love is a very boring God IMO).
You are thinking about and describing some specific version of the "Christian God", which is fine, but it certainly does not answer ZJ's general question.
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