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>>150
Trauma involves a change – a wound, a disturbance, a before-and-after. God does not change.
>immutabilis est Deus

Trauma is a form of suffering (intense emotional and spiritual pain). God cannot suffer emotions or passions like humans do. Christ suffers in His human nature, not in His divine nature.
>impassibilis est Deus

Trauma implies a privation, i.e. a loss, wound and/or a diminishment. But God is a perfect Being, he lacks nothint and needs nothing.
>actus purus

Traume is inherently a temporal event: something happens to a a person in time and affects their future. God meanwhile exists outside or time and is not subject to temporal experiences.
>eternus est Deus

The nature of evil itself: it does not "affect" God directly, rather He allows it for greater goods. Evil is a privation (lack) or good, not a substance or force that can "injure" God.
>All things work together for good for those who love God (Rom 8:28)

>>151
>God cannot suffer
Yes he can.
He's the archetypal artist coping with his trauma through his work.
How do I know this?
It was revealed to me in a dream.
God might be eternal now but this does not mean he always has been.
He was traumatized before the beginning of time.
The answer lies in the Ungrund.
If this sounds like a paradox that's because it is.
Christian theology is filled with them.
Just look at virgin birth, god becoming man or the holy trinity.
Hylics might want you to believe those paradoxes are "flaws" but the opposite is true. They are vital expressions of mans unconscious trying to break into consciousness. Which in turn is a direct communication with God.
Just because something was written in Latin does not mean that it has a claim to truth.
>Deus traumatizatus est.
Believe me now?

Trauma must be inflicted by something

>>160
That's correct. God is wounded in a sense.
His creative act of Schöpfung is his attempt to cope with this disturbance.
An attempt at healing his wound.
Who or what inflicted this trauma?
Has he brought it upon himself? Who knows..

>>159
>It was revealed to me in a dream.
>God might be eternal now but this does not mean he always has been.

Are you a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

The Prophet Joseph Smith said in the King Follett Discourse:
>First, God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves, that is the great secret.
>If the vail was rent to-day, and the great God, who holds this world in its orbit, and upholds all things by his power;
>if you were to see him to-day, you would see him in all the person, image and very form as a man;
>for Adam was created in the very fashion and image of God;
>Adam received instruction, walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talkes and communes with another.
>…We have imagined that God was God from all eternity.
>These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are the simple and first principles of the gospel, to know for a certainty the character of God, that we may converse with him as one man with another, and that God himself; the Father of us all dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did, and I will show it from the Bible.
>…what did Jesus say?
>…Jesus said, as the Father hath power in himself, even so hath the Son power;
>to do what?
>why what the Father did, that answer is obvious;
>in a manner to lay down his body and take it up again.

Or as President Lorenzo Snow put it
>As man now is, God once was:
>As God now is, man may be.

>>150
It would seem that it is the Demiurge that is a reflection of our own trauma made into a divine image. God himself is the very totality of all things, and therefore does not have the one-sided, limited nature that would be necessary to be subject to trauma. However, as limited, one-sided beings we humans may look to the figure of Christ as the exemplar of how we ought to handle our distress, that is, to be willing to embrace it on for the glory of the Almighty.

>>162
>An attempt at healing his wound.
Wounds are commonly accepted to be Yonic… you do realise what you just said about God.

>>214
Makes sense if you think about it.
Associations with the spear of Longinus piercing Jesus’ side also arise.