QUOTE(tags @ Nov 20 2005, 06:47 PM) [snapback]941617[/snapback]
Why are u assuming that God is the origin of joy and happiness etc. Can not all feelings originate in him, therefore he could be omnipresent?
I dont believe this but just saying????
I believe that he is the origin of joy and happiness, because he loves us. I try to remain as loyal to him as I can, because I know he loves me and brings me happiness. Believing that heaven is Eternal Happiness, thus created by God, is by no other means The Ultimate Joy.
Now - if you have ever read the book Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain, you'll see in Satan's letter that he says:
"Now then, you have the facts. You know what the human race enjoys, and what it doesn't enjoy. It has invented a heaven out of it's own head, all by itself: guess what it is like! In fifteen hundred eternities you couldn't do it. The ables mind known to you are me in fifty million aeons couldn't do it. Very well, I will tell you about it.1. First of all, I recall to your attention the extrondinary fact with which I began. To wit, that the human being like the immortals, naturally places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys - yet he has left it out in his heaven! The very thought of it excites him; opportunity sets him wild; in this state he will risk life, reputation, everything - even his queer heaven itself - to make good that opportunity and ride it into the overwhelming climax. From youth to middle age all men and all women prize copulation above all other pleasures combinded, but yet like I have said: it is not in their heaven; prayer takes it's place. Now, this is why I believe that God is the source of all our happiness. It is our happiness to believe that we are known and love to God, without asking questions on Earth, like "Does God really love me?" or "Is God really real?". But, we are granted the lovely answers to that question when we are in heaven and realize his bountiful glory. We are happy because like the passage from the book above, we have known that we rise higher than the regular human emotion and instinct, and do not wish to desire sex and other pleasures anymore like we have done on Earth.
Oh, to your question Yelekiah:
He is infinite in his power, not his presence. God does not exist in Hell; he allowed the separation from himself to be a punishment for all who are down there suffering.