Dispassionate, Personal and Complicated Man

Being dispassionate can be described as not influenced by strong feelings or emotions; impartial. Free from passion; calm; composed; impartial; unmoved by strong emotion; cool; applied to persons: as, dispassionate men or judges. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial: applied to actions or sentiments. While, Personality refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments, and behaviors consistently exhibited over time that strongly influences one’s expectations, self-perceptions, values, and attitudes. Personality also predicts human reactions to other people, problems, and stress.

Being holy can be described as perfect in goodness and righteousness. Holy can also be regarded as pure, having a spiritually pure quality: a holy love, without flaw. (Ecclesiastical Terms) of, relating to, or associated with God or a deity; sacred. (Ecclesiastical Terms) endowed or invested with extreme purity or sublimity. (Ecclesiastical Terms) devout, godly, or virtuous. Holy terror, a difficult or frightening person, inspiring fear, awe, or distress.

It is possible to like God and not love Him because He inspires fear, awe or distress. However, one can love Jesus Christ because He is spiritually pure, without flaw and most important of all the expressional form, person, or nature of God’s love. While one can reverence the Holy Spirit because He is perfect in goodness and righteousness. Due to the complexity of God and His character, and above all His desire to commune with man, He presents Himself in three or more ways, in order for man to like Him, love Him and reverence or fear Him. An extremely complicated Man indeed, with no name, taking on names depending on the occasion or situation, such as Father (Man), Son (Son of Man), Holy Spirit (the Spirit) or Adonai Eloheinu (My Lord my God). Because of the Fear due to Him, so to make Himself accessible to us, God has expressed Himself and lived among us as Jesus Christ.

God is a personal God, with likes and dislikes, such as: He likes truth, honesty, fairness, kindness and He is prone to being hurt when confronted with His dislikes such as: lies, deceit, hatred, cruelty, disdain, lack of empathy, manipulation, envy, pride, gossip, malicious rumor mongering, oppression and the list goes on and on.

Despite being personal, God is also at the same time dispassionate and unbiased; He sends rain on both the good and the wicked, He gives length of days irrespective of goodness or wickedness, He gives riches to both the good and the wicked, and He allows poverty, calamity or disaster on both the good and the wicked. Almost impersonal or devoid of emotions or feelings when it comes to dispensing His favors. He is indeed an extremely complicated Man.

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