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Does God get bored?
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Permalink Reply by Dave Clemo on -
Another smart alec comment from me got you thinking again.
If I was god and could see the begining middle and end of time. If I knew that man would fall even before I created him; if I knew that my son would have to die on the cross to redeem mankind, then I might.
But God says "My ways are not your ways"
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Read on -
I doubt it.
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Permalink Reply by Julia Chantrell on -
Dunno. Kids get bored because they haven't enough to do, or what they're doing doesn't suit them... we're all concious of the passage of time, and when we're not doing it seems to go slowly so we get bored. If God lives outside time, can he suffer from boredom??
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Permalink Reply by David Bull on -
If boredom exists outside of time, there must be a place of eternal boredom!
Perhaps it's a place for those not quite bad enough for hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David Bull.
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Permalink Reply by Dave Clemo on
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My original comment that prompted the topic was on the recent "I'm a worship leader who doesn't listen to worship CDs does this make me a bad person?" topic.
My comment was along the lines that (furiously trying to remember what I wrote and too lazy to look it up) We try to make our worship times interesting and not boring and I wondered if God ever got bored with our worship of him?
So........
I used to liken our worship to that of a very young child, a toddler bringing a messy scribble to his/her parent. The parent will think it's wonderful (all parents think that their own kids are the most beautiful, the most talented etc etc).
However if the child is still bringing messy scribbles to their parent when they are older (and ought to be able to read write, draw and converse in other than grunts- so let's say eight to ten years old- any older and they're back to grunts again). What would the parent think?
The parent would say that it's time the child grew up and stopped behaving like a baby.
So does God get bored with our worship? Maybe not. But I bet he gets exasperated at our inability and unwillingness to grow up and mature as Christians
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Permalink Reply by Julia Chantrell on
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converse in other than grunts
Have you been round teenagers lately???
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Permalink Reply by David Bull on
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I have!
They may speak in incomprehensible grunts but they insert the word "Like" in between the grunts. Something like this:-
Grunt, like Grunt like Grunt like Grunt Kinda like grunt like.
Oh! I didn't mention "Kinda" did I. It's a special prefix to some of the "likes".
I have also notice that they get upset if you quietly but audibly count the "likes", it is a challenge to get beyond four without a reaction. By eight they are usually steaming!
David Bull.
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Permalink Reply by Kev Plant on -
Does God get bored? No..I don't think that He does, why...there's nothing in His Word that I have come across to say that He gets bored or nothing that I am aware of by His Spirit that He does...angry (righteously) yes but bored!
If He got bored He would 'take His hand off us' and as He holds all things together....
Kev
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Permalink Reply by David Bull on
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If God starts to get board he just goes off and designs something like the Angler fish or the Camel!
David Bull.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Barlow on -
One of the characteristics of God is that he is immanent. The OED defines this as meaning "Indwelling, inherent; actually present or abiding in; remaining within." We would usually interpret that he is immanent in his creation and that it is sustained by him and his presence. From this, I would suggest that he is far too busy to be bored.
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