Is God deeply emotional... and is our being thankful important?

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On a scale of one to five how thankful are you for your spouse, children, neighbors and family?

  1. 5.... extremely thankful... my family and friends are AWESOME!

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  2. 4 ... generally very thankful but..... they could all be doing better

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  3. 3... somewhat thankful..... but my disappointment is justified.

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  4. 2.... my family and friends are terribly ungrateful

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  5. 1 My family, friends and neighbors do not deserve to have me in their lives. I deserve far better.

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  1. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I've ran into assertions before that God is deeply emotional and our being generally thankful is far more important than we tend to imagine.

    My theory is that if it is true that our Creator has worked and worked and planned and designed and designed from infinite time in the past to create every little thing about you and I then............ investing infinite time in the past in this creation..... would tend to make our Creator deeply emotionally involved in every aspect of our lives.

    Near death experiencer Dr. Kevin Zadai goes into the importance of Thanksgiving Day and this Christmas season!




    What's Next! - Kevin Zadai


     
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    God killed all his Children but a boatload once per the bible

    guess God would be more like Andrea Yates
     
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    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Our bodies and minds are about seventy percent water and GRATITUDE has been demonstrated to have an unusual effect even on water.



    Masaru Emoto's Experiment in Gratitude


    As you can guess... negative thoughts and emotions had a very different effect on the water that he studied.




    Water Has Memory! Dr. Masaru Emoto's Water Experiment!
     
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    Near death experiencer Dr. Kevin Zadai was shown some about how astonishingly violent the earth had became in the decades before that flood.

    There was also far more going on in Sodom and Gomorrah according to the Book of Jasher than most Fundamentalist Christians have spoken about.

    https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/19.htm

    Some Christians are enthusiastic about reducing abortions through decreasing the economic pressure on the poor to have abortions.... but I had expected that this basic idea would grab significantly more attention than it has so far.


    Would a Basic Minimum Income dramatically reduce abortions?



    Here are the statistics for deaths among African Americans since 1973:
     
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    Thankfulness........ is actually spiritual warfare!


    https://www.near-death.com/experiences/gay/christian-andreason.html#a12

     
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    I guess being thankful for one's pluses in life is important independent of one's religion as it comes from or instills a sense of humility. I am probably more thankful for things that didn't happen/lives I see other people living I am glad I don't have though. My life is sort of a sweet spot where I never grew up too poor but also not so wealthy I was spoiled rotten or raised by the butler or sent away to boarding school.
     
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    So many gods so little time, how can you ever pick one? And why do living things have an expiration date?
     
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    I don't think anyone can fathom what a God feels.

    Emotion is a human construct also so I don't know if it applies to God.

    I have a suspicion that God isn't what people assume He is but nobody knows.
     
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    Ah, so God is female then!
     
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    Genesis 1:26


    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."


    I am suspecting more and more that our being made somehow in the image of our Creator has more to it than we tend to imagine.



    It was not the original intention for these human bodies to have an expiration date..... and actually..... we really don't die. We float off into a higher invisible dimension.......... and if we learn to love....... that will be a really good idea for us to do.


    https://www.thequickenedword.com/rhema/BobJonesTestimonyAugust81975DeathExperience.htm


    BOB JONES’ TESTIMONY AUGUST 8, 1975 DEATH EXPERIENCE

    http://www.bobjones.org

     
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    Agree. That may not even be meant to be taken literally.

    Can't wait to find out though.
     
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    So if a person makes a practice of being grateful, the water in them could crystalize. That would be fatal!
     
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    That is funny!!!!!!!

    I hope that you were not being serious?????

    I did read several pages on the Dr. Masaru Emoto research as well as some somewhat related research by Swiss scientist Hans Jenny but I do not know if there is far more to the Emoto research that would help to make more sense out of why those crystallization formations came into existence in the water??? Was a temperature change part of the experiment??? I really don't know for sure????
     
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    It is logically impossible to have been doing something for an infinitely long period of time. For that matter, why would an omniscient God need to figure all that out? Omniscience implies he already knows what to do.
     
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    Why would you assume that any given name for God is important? Seems to me he would not set up the 'right' religion as a lottery. IMO,all paths lead to Him if they are followed to their end.
     
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    All paths lead to Him? Why not lead to Her or Undisclosed? These people are screwing with us.
     
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    In English, the male gender includes the female. And, I assume, the neuter.
     
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    God can't have a gender stop fooling yourselves. Or else there would be a Mrs. God and a bunch of little gods running around the universe. I tend to hope this never happens.
     
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    Would this not be covered by the neuter gender? Quibbling about this is dumb. It just doesn't matter if God has a gender, except for those of us with a political correctness agenda.
     
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    There is a difference in gender in language and gender in real life. The lgbtq+ community has taught us that. Do you refuse their ideas?
     
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    What do you personally think of the following comment by a near death experiencer?

    I personally believe that Mr. Christian Andreason was shown the following ideas during his brush with death.



    https://www.near-death.com/experiences/gay/christian-andreason.html#a11

     
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    Just two days ago I was reading further in one of the most amazing near death experience accounts that I have ever read and this topic came up...... I would love to be able to copy and paste some of what was written but at least I can give you a link to get you started on this if you are interested.

    www.ThomasTwin.com/

    http://www.thomastwin.com/6 A Thomas background.html

    http://www.thomastwin.com/7 A Thomas samples.html


    And I was not kidding when I made the following nomination.........


    Your nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature?



    IF IT IS TRUE THAT Messiah Yeshua - Jesus stated essentially the following to his disciples then......... that would mean that Messiah Yeshua - Jesus was very much on the same page as Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and or modern near death experiencer Rabbi Alon Anava..... and if so then the implications are HUGE!!!!!!!!


     
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    "Is God deeply emotional... and is our being thankful important?"


    if God is like Trump, is a narcissist with a fragile ego... then yes

    does God do loyalty tests? would he ask a father to kill his own child just to see if he is loyal to him?

    the bible does say he is very very Jealous of other Gods

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+34:14&version=KJV

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    Exodus 34:14 King James Version (KJV)
    14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
    "
     
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    I admit that I could be wrong.....
    but I do feel that it is time for Isaiah chapter forty five to be fulfilled on many levels.......
    and I do believe that President Trump will soon be known to have broken chains and set captives free on a level that
    will astonish even his most vehement opponents..............

    March 4, 2021 could well be HUGE..... if the rather brilliant Mr. Jarrin Jackson is onto something important with his ideas......
    that he backs up rather nicely with images beginning at the twenty five minute mark..........




    The basics of chaos - 1-22-2021
     
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    "That unto me every knee shall bow"

    that would really upset Trump, but yeah, I could see Trump saying those bible verses, maybe Trump is like the God of the bible

    when you read the bible, imagine God being like Trump... it makes much more sense
     
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