Feeling Sorry For God

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Victims of malicious pity in the form of cruel mockery and/or demeaning
comments deliberately intended to hurt their feelings, tear them down and
make them feel bad about themselves; and people in dysfunctional families
where courtesy, thoughtfulness, and respect for one another's feelings is
non existent; are sometimes conditioned by too much of that kind of
negativity to become sympathy-challenged; and to mistrust any and all pity
- even sincere, honest pity --as a knife to the heart instead of an expression
of good will.

That kind of conditioning is very difficult to overcome-- difficult, but not
impossible; at least not impossible for Christ's believing followers.

● Rom 8:11 . . If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in
you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

At first glance that passage appears to be speaking of the body's future
resurrection, and it probably is; but it's also talking about the here and now
regarding the power of a supernatural benefit package called the fruit of the
Spirit. (Gal 5:19-25)

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[twinc]

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Victims of malicious pity in the form of cruel mockery and/or demeaning
comments deliberately intended to hurt their feelings, tear them down and
make them feel bad about themselves; and people in dysfunctional families
where courtesy, thoughtfulness, and respect for one another's feelings is non
existent; are sometimes conditioned by too much of that kind of negativity
to mistrust any and all pity-- even sincere, honest pity --as a knife to the
heart instead of an expression of good will.

That kind of conditioning is very difficult to overcome-- difficult, but not
impossible; at least not impossible for Christ's believing followers.

● Rom 8:11 . . If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in
you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

At first glance that passage appears to be speaking of the body's future
resurrection, and it probably is; but it's also talking about the here and now
regarding the power of a supernatural benefit package called the fruit of the
Spirit. (Gal 5:19-25)

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so here we have a fairly large amount of human understanding/interpretation etc but not so much as \God's own interpretation via the Bible etc where we are told God's is love and then to prevent us having way out ,weird and wacky ideas, as is here demonstrated, we are told exactly what love is imho = God is love x 2 = what do I mean = God needed nothing but something/someone needed God to be a something or someone - knowing the end from the beginning He realised what this would involve as insults, sins, rejection etc but He still went ahead with creation this was love and He did again ending in His crucifixion = this was love x 2 - more later - twinc

 

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Victims of malicious pity in the form of cruel mockery and/or demeaning
comments deliberately intended to hurt their feelings, tear them down and
make them feel bad about themselves; and people in dysfunctional families
where courtesy, thoughtfulness, and respect for one another's feelings is non
existent; are sometimes conditioned by too much of that kind of negativity
to mistrust any and all pity-- even sincere, honest pity --as a knife to the
heart instead of an expression of good will.

That kind of conditioning is very difficult to overcome-- difficult, but not
impossible; at least not impossible for Christ's believing followers.

● Rom 8:11 . . If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in
you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

At first glance that passage appears to be speaking of the body's future
resurrection, and it probably is; but it's also talking about the here and now
regarding the power of a supernatural benefit package called the fruit of the
Spirit. (Gal 5:19-25)

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Honest pity is no better than any other variety. Pity is feeling sorry for another being rather than feeling their pain. You can feel pity for an animal while you are enjoying eating it for dinner.

 

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The fruit of the Spirit as per Gal 5:19-25 wasn't a new revelation in the days
of the apostles. It was predicted many years before them in the Old
Testament.

● Ezek 36:26-28 . . I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I
will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I
will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful
to keep my laws.

An "heart of flesh" would normally be regarded in modern Sunday school
classes as a bad thing; here in Ezekiel, flesh is juxtaposed with stone to
indicate that God is talking about tenderness; which can be defined as
gentleness, kindness, sensitivity, and deep affection; i.e. the warm, softer
emotions.

A heart of stone is a cold, dead heart like those massive granite monoliths in
Yosemite Valley. They feel not the slightest bit of pity for climbers who lose
their grip and fall. Nope, those big rocks just go on like nothing ever
happened; silent, indifferent, unconcerned, non grieving, uncompassionate,
and unsympathetic; i.e. they feel nothing: nothing at all.

● Col 3:12 . . As God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe
yourselves with compassion

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[bbyrd009]

i don't think we're disagreeing that "pity" shares one synonym with compassion, WH, it's that there is a necessary station or even "seat at a table" one must assume in order to have pity, as opposed to compassion.