COMMENSAL ISSUE 96

Re Albert Dean’s challenge (C95/24) : "Show that it would be possible for a human being to make a perfect God angry" :-

1. The statement seems to imply that there is or could be a contradiction between anger and perfection. Is it anger that is seen as imperfect, or (human) emotion in general ? What grounds are there for either viewpoint ? Until that’s clarified, the question of whether a human being could be the cause of that anger seems irrelevant.
2. How is ‘God’ to be defined for the purpose of this discussion ? Is it necessary to assume a biblical God with human-type psychological attributes ?

Have these questions already been answered in previous discussion ? You did offer me some back-copies of Commensal, Theo, which I declined.

Gwen : I agree with your questions above. "Wrath" can be separated from the human emotions of irritation, impatience, hate, malevolence, etc. That is, as representing "being against" (as a Bishop once famously said concerning his general attitude to sin) a person’s actions but in a more committed way than simply noting them as wrong.

Theo