God is Love: Despite Athiest Ojbections
Originally Posted by NoctambulantJoycean God is not love; God can have the attribute of being loving, but God is not love. I don't know why some theists make a mistake this basic. The basis for something is equated with the thing itself. Yes God is love. you are making a huge mistake but it's typical reductionist misunderstanding of things. (1) reduce the wording from its metaphorical state it's an attempt to denude the power of the statement. (2) It's literally true in the sense of the contingency. If love is merely an experience of adaptation that comes from an accident of neural net based upon brain chemistry, then it's limits to the feelings attached to the sentiment and is not purposeful or expansive. So the concept of Love (agape) in a God ordained universe has a lot more to it than love in a Godless universe. It's like saying your dog is hunger, as opposed to saying your dog has the attribute ...