Conversing with God
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An all powerful deity with human emotions was always something I found particularly funny in the Bible. There are many times where God is described as being angry or jealous or (as in the case of the New Testament) loving. I’ve talked about this before, but I find it hard to believe that a being with the power to create, animate, and infuse spirit into his creation would ever feel as we do. It just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. In the Old Testament, you get this sense that God is essentially a kid with an ant hill and a magnifying glass, just tormenting people for the fun of it. I mean, the Book of Job? What’s that all about?
I don’t think it’s wrong to believe in a God or anything like that, but ascribing such incredible flaws to a being we probably wouldn’t be able to comprehend is a bit myopic. Sure, it’s nice to think that he’s just like us, but that’s also really silly.
That said, that sort of God does make for an excellent comic character. Especially when he’s sulky and draping himself over things.
This is a weird strip, I’m not sure what to say about it specifically, really.
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Another HT Throwback: Draping yourself on stuff. And junk.
DRAPERY!!!
Recently started reading your strip. Love your art, but it was your philosophies that kept me coming round. And this, I think, might be one of my favorites. I find that we shouldn’t be able to ascribe human emotion or morality to a being capable of creating a universe. I feel that there is no way we could possibly fathom what goes on inside their consciousness.
People changed the look of God to inveigle the believers.
At first God was scary and angry. If you wouldn’t believe in him you would be punished. As time changed, people were looking for someone more delicate. God who always love you was a perfect match, and, you could still hold up to the old one, so there weren’t really any problems with choosing your religion.
How does God punish a nonbeliever (like me) if he doesn’t exist in their mind?
i LOVE all of your comics i read them all in one day haha
i agree with matt several comments on top of me.
the basis of these are fantastic.
hahaha i love them and your art.
quite marvelous.
Sup dude,
love your comics! Also, your comics make damn fine avatar material.
Haha, God is so bi-polar.
I wonder how God ranks up to The Checkout
Yes the sudden mood change in God was quite inept.
I wounder how god ranks up to The Cherish Cat..
Oh, I don’t know. most early cultures tended to think of God as themselves with access to superpowers and magic clay.
Anyone who’s played Sims before knows exactly how fun it is to build things and create people and then kill and them.
And we (humans) tend to create things in our own image – God might be the same way, just sort of bigger. If we were created in his/her/its image, we could figure out a lot about his/her/its by examining our own. When you’re trying to figure out ultimate truth, everything’s worth a shot.
What makes the Lord God of Israel so glorious is that fact that He can directly empathise with us. Because, through Christ, He has been subject to the same temptations and human frailties as ourselves.
We are told that God made us in His image, not in a physical sense, but a spiritual. Thus it is no surprise that we should be capable of a shallow shadow of His divine nature.
True love is really the only emotion that we are capable of that comes close to really emulating God. All others are usually tainted somewhat thanks to the limitations of our flesh.
When the Bible talks about God expressing an emotion, this is simply an attempt to aid our comprehension of the Lord. We cannot appreciate the fullness of divine anger, because we can only relate it to our own experiences of anger, which are usually self-serving and unjust. Similarly, our feeble minds cannot encompass the depth of love that God has for His creation.
While it is somewhat futile for us to attempt to comprehend the nature of God, we can see as a certainty that when the Lord was made flesh, and became a man, and dwelt on Earth among us, that he was the most perfect example of humility and lovingkindness and altruism imaginable, whilst still capable of a deep personal relationship with humanity.
We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, but fortunately for us he is still offering us a helping hand of reconciliation and grace. We just have to reach out in faith and take it…
I really like your comic! I’ll probably be commenting whenever Christianity is brought up, but I’ll try to keep it short.
A common misconception is that God hurts people and causes people to die, but this is not true. In I John 1:5 we read “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” So why does the Old Testament often say that God has caused deaths and disasters? It is a Hebrew figure of speech, the “Idiom of Permission”. The linked webpage explains it pretty well.
Basically, the idiom of permission does not say who did something, but rather who allowed it to happen. God never wants us to suffer or be in pain, but because the Devil had free reign over the mankind and the world (until Christ redeemed us from sin), God was forced to allow disasters to happen. Yet God always protects those he can, like Noah’s family when Noah was the only believer left on the earth.
I hope this helped someone, I’ll be around!