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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
Thanks for the kind words, UntoHim and CountMeWorthy. I quit posting many moons ago because I didn't like what it was doing to me.
I stand by my verse, John 12:24, as a rock solid proof verse that, at least in some sense God has experienced loneliness. I don't think it's like we experience it exactly but Jesus did have a kind of wistfulness in his voice when he talked about having no place to lay his head...
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I apologize if I came out with bricks flying. Seems to be the more I post the more opinionated I get. So thanks for taking the time to post here, and enduring my "sharpness". If there's a way I can make a case without being insulting I'll try to find it.
I also have been very impressed by the "stranger in a strange land" theme. Like the parable of the man of noble birth who went to a far country to get for himself a kingdom. We, here, arguably, are that supposed to be that kingdom. We are the proverbial "far country", and yes Jesus arguably came here for His people and His bride.
But He was always connected to the Father. He could exult even when He was desperately alone, physically. He was never unconnected. And this connection isn't to a lonely Father in heaven. This is to the L
ORD Sabaoth. I don't think that really fit well into the post-Protestant mindset so we instead invented the lonely God.
"I am never alone. The Father is always with Me." The ones who were alone were the 12. He died for them, to bring them back to the Father's house. And that goes for all of us, those who would believe into His name. There is surely no greater love than that.
So perhaps I am simply trying to balance the narrative. Or put my own personal twist on it. Who knows. Thank you for posting and I apologize if I poured cold ice water into my reply. I always enjoyed your posts in the past, and I'm sure that many of the readers of this forum preferred them to mine!
We shouldn't make ideas into personality contests, and I've posted so much (too much?) that perhaps I get territorial, and/or argumentative. We didn't come to this planet to cross swords with each other.
Anyway, I never liked the "lonely bachelor God" idea, and still don't. But that may be something of my personality being manifested. ("Oh my God! No! A personality! No!")