Today, reply is on morality as a result of GOD using human form and social relationships. While the persons of the GODhead do exchange, influence one another, and interact as three distinct appearances (manifestations), the fullness of divinity appears as a single Being who displays oneness without sameness. Obedience and rank do not describe what occurs within and through the GODhead so much as accord and shared intent. Even among those who are not religious believers there are clear and specific traits thought to be necessary for an exalted being or “god” as well as a long list of features that are seen when true godliness and holiness are absent. For example, many require there be authority, goodness, immortality, integrity, order, righteousness, truth, and wisdom with disqualifying flaws and faults understood as arbitrariness, confusion, inconsistency, lying, malice, nastiness, exaggerated pride, and self-destructiveness. One of the fighters at “Yahoo! Answers” who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile data shared) posted the following:
Why should God be moral if there is no one for him to answer to?
Christians say "Why should a social species such as us humans be moral if there is no one to answer to?"
Well, why should God be moral when he has no one to answer to?
If you can understand why God can, why is it so impossible to understand how a social species such as humans can?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? (Job 38: 1-11, King James Version, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: All Divinity in ONE? (11/17/2017); A Lawless, Violent GOD? (11/16/2017); Judgment and Law Revealed (08/06/2017); GOD Indwells Divine Law (07/14/2017); Answered by The Cross? (03/14/2016); Tools for Revelation? (10/26/2015); Religion And Moral Progress? (10/23/2015); The Decalogue A Moral Guide? (04/15/2015)
“Anonymous”, here’s a response I respect as sharing the abundance from GOD through Jesus Christ: Because the GOD we worship is more than an abstraction, or an impersonal, intangible object, for many Christian believers it is implicit (i.e., not stated, yet, understood in what is expressed) when considering divinity that the characteristics, makeup, process and substance of GOD exists as complete, exalted, independent, righteous, self-emanating, and unique. GOD has imparted consciousness, life essence (we say, breath, spirit, Word) and self-will to mankind. Thus, the Creator also makes himself known by communication, exchange, and interaction through ongoing relationships. There is no revealed origin of Deity, and the fullness of GODhead (the totality of being described using three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) ) is acknowledged and affirmed as expressing balance, feeling, holiness, person, presence, purpose, thought, and more.
Developing Christian believers are not encouraged to assume or propose that morality is a product of finite human tools such as animal intelligence and instinct, female intuition, logic, carnal reason, sensation (hearing seeing tasting touching, etc.), social consensus, or self-will (we also say, human willpower). As an inseparable aspect of divinity, morality must be understood as defining, fixed and immutable along with such features as faith, holiness, immortality, integrity, oneness without sameness, purity, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Judgment, correction, forgiveness, and mercy appear as devices to accomplish divine purposes that include eternal life, reconciliation, redemption, salvation, and the second death.
There is no revealed context, frameworks such as time and space, or spheres of life that impose boundaries and limits on the possibilities of GOD. Certainty (being confident and sure; conviction of truth) regarding claims and descriptions of divine being is accomplished through operations of faith and other divine content imparted to created beings and living creatures. Thus, anointed apostles, prophets and other spokespersons may be used, and sacred events (we say, miracles) and divine visitations will not be repeated. The features put forth by divinity can be correctly regarded as standards and values for knowing GOD. Included are divine law, covenant promise, divine prerogative, prophecy, eternal purpose, and sovereign will. Consider again the following that uses language from the holy writings:
(1.) Deuteronomy 32: 39-40, King James Version (KJV): 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
(2.) Deuteronomy 4: 35-36, KJV: 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
There is far more to be said, correctly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (3.) Exodus 34: 5-8, KJV: 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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