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If God exists, would It have a sense of humor?

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If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

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"It" in English is a pronoun used for animals, inanimate objects and things without self will and personality, such as robots and computers. As it standS then, you have asked a loaded question since any answer must acknowledge God to be an 'it' rather than a person (with intelligence, self-will and a personality). In accepting this premise the answer is self evidently no ("its" don't have humor).

The bible however, is very clear, GOD not only definitely exists, he exists as a person with a will, a personality and a distinct likes and dislikes and as is often said
"No one has a better sense of humor than he that invented the whole concept of laughter in the first place".

Indeed if the contents of the bible (which he authored) and His creation is any indication of his personality, I would say yes God most certainly does have a very good sense of humour.

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ThePainefulTruth wrote: If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?
I do find God to have a sense of humor, but it is very sophisticated as in God will laugh at His self but not at others.

The sad reality as I find it - is that laughter and celebrating is a sign of evil - and it usually does include evil.

As like this HERE.

There is a proverb which I never forget = When the wicked rejoice then a person is missing.

Example: As like a group of criminals are happy and rejoicing while the person(s) who are missing are the people they hurt or robbed or violated.

There is another true story about the very last day of Nazi Germany in the underground bunker Adolf Hitler could hear the Russian bombs outside, and so Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun decided to have a dance because everybody was to be happy instead of being sad, so they had music and champagne and dancing to cover up the reality coming upon them.

The one certain reality of life is that pain and suffering and sorrow are the true reality for every person throughout humanity, and so the Father God is the one who suffers the most.
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If we are conceiving God as the Ground of Being, and therefore our modes of knowledge like Time and Space do not apply, with whom, or about what, is God supposed to 'laugh'?

The question is not very philosophically attuned.

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NEW TESTAMENT
why the jewish leaders hated jesus- the same reason everyone else did, he professed to be god….and everyone already knew it wasn’t true because that’s who they were;
why god changed abram’s name to abraham- because someone with an animal’s name (ram) in their own isn’t nearly as blessed as someone with the name of an animal that has been cooked (ham)?

what true and false witnesses means- true can be interpreted as real while false could mean not a physical thing.


OLD TESTAMENT
why adam didn’t start sinning at birth- (he wasn’t born, he was created, or he would have started when everyone else did);
dead animals and burnt fat- sacrifice god liked more than fruit;
who were the two witnesses (lamp stands and olive trees)? #1 was the burning bush we saw when we read the story because moses had already died…….#2 was who moses saw, probably abraham after he died;


why was the story about the tower of babel written?- to explain how the languages were confused, and that he (the author) had nothing to do with it;
physical body - what jesus left with when he rose from the dead; white horse - what jesus will be riding when he returns; venus - closest planet to us (~25 million miles away); milky way- ~60 million light years away;
When jesus left - about 2000 years ago; when he will return - never, even with his white horse to give him extra speed on the trip back; reasons a person would have to go in a physical body to where the physical world ends - 0; how god got his name- god the father is the tree of life (stars, large light); god the son (sun, small light) is a smaller version of of god….the same composition as god but smaller; god the holy spirit is nothing, no substance, zero value;


what was the flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life?- the sun; nothing else had flames and rotated around the earth in those days? what is the tree of life? - the stars, god the father; how did they know it was the tree of life?- light is good, dark is bad…if dark and night could be destroyed the light that had been removed could light the day and night, and people could live forever; how could they live forever?- light is life, without dark no one would sleep or die;

Gen. 9:20; ‘and Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.’
tents - things people lived in before they knew how to build houses (and boats); cubits - measurements people used to describe objects with flat bottoms and sides; ark word origin (round letters describe a round object, flat letters describe a flat one, at least before the languages were confused) - boat with flat dimensions is a barge……………………boat with even flatter dimensions is bark……………………..bark; what people used to build boats before they had tools………………………………………….bark minus b is an Ark; window - the thing you make with a rock; when god shortened peoples lives to 120 years- after they learned how to count, the only time length of life changed;
what the bible says god gave to abraham – the land from the great river euphrates to the great river of egypt, about where israel is today; . . . . . .where abraham thought it was- the other great rivers, the ones that surround all the land (we call them oceans); . . . . . where people think sodom and gomorrah was- the middle east; . . . where abraham thought it was- everything except what god gave him; . . . . . . . . why all the people were fighting with each other-they said god told them the land was theirs;………….

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ThePainefulTruth wrote: If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

It depends which denomination's God you are discussing. It is, as has been pointed out, odd to use the neuter pronoun and yet in the same sentence personify God as possibly smiling, laughing and talking.

He created the mayfly with no mouth. That's funny.
He gave the skunk an obnoxious smell and let the platypus lay eggs. He created some humans with inclinations to destroy other humans, through some brain defect. And he asked for heaps of male foreskins. He talked his son into undertaking a suicide mission and called it love.

He has a dark sense of humour.

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. something i find funny; bible and babel are almost exactly alike; the tree of life is the stars, light god, when it was moved far from us there was less light, but fortunately god left the flaming sword (sun) and cherubim (moon) for light. With all the light here we would never have to sleep and could live forever. and the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is what they should have been eating, they might have known the sun and stars are the same thing.
. at the tower of babel when an explanation is given to why god stopped them it was basically because the fruit would make them so smart they could go to heaven, (some of them apparently by lying to themselves about their possible) give god the boot and sit on his throne).

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JP Cusick wrote:

The one certain reality of life is that pain and suffering and sorrow are the true reality for every person throughout humanity, and so the Father God is the one who suffers the most.

How terribly sad for him. Perhaps man should try harder to conceal sadness when death occurs to avoid divine upset. It may eventually occur to the weeping God that he can do something about it.

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evilsorcerer1 wrote: . something i find funny; bible and babel are almost exactly alike; the tree of life is the stars, light god, when it was moved far from us there was less light, but fortunately god left the flaming sword (sun) and cherubim (moon) for light. With all the light here we would never have to sleep and could live forever. and the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is what they should have been eating, they might have known the sun and stars are the same thing.
. at the tower of babel when an explanation is given to why god stopped them it was basically because the fruit would make them so smart they could go to heaven, (some of them apparently by lying to themselves about their possible) give god the boot and sit on his throne).
That is funny.

It really is stunning to be so funny.

Especially the mentality of people that we are going to kick God off of His thrown, = :dance: RoFL



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marco wrote: How terribly sad for him. Perhaps man should try harder to conceal sadness when death occurs to avoid divine upset. It may eventually occur to the weeping God that he can do something about it.
The task is to live with the suffering and pain and sorrow because those are the reality and those are key parts to the absolute truth of life.

God can not do anything to change that any more than we humans can not change the truths of life.

The task is for us to embrace reality and accept reality and then learn to live with this reality.

God lives for eternity because God can endure absolute pain.
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There's not a lot of humor in the bible but when it is there it hits home. I do find the account of babel funny and try to imagine the conversations as they tried desperately to keep the project afloat...
Dave: "Bob! I need another brick"

Bob: Qu'est-ce qu'il t'a dit?

Pete: No lo sé

Bob: huh?!

Pete: ¿Estás sordo? Dije 'NO LO SE!

Dave: Is nobody listening to me, I asked for another brick!

Pete: Huh?

Bob: Quoi?

Dave: Huh?

Pete: Qué?

The angels must have laughed and laughed...

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