Originally Posted by john76

Hi Abel. I didn't say that there aren't things that pleases God or that he is pleased with. You say: "He is pleased with those who have asked Him for forgiveness. We please God with our faith: Heb.11:6 'But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.'

There are lots of versus that express this:

Proverbs 15:8
The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


Ecclesiastes 7:26
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

1 Timothy 2:3
This is good, and pleases God our Savior,

1 John 3:22
and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

But regardless of whether certain things do or do not please God according to some ancient book that is the compilation of many unrelated writers, my question is whether or not God is happy - not pleased. Would you be happy living forever and having no surprises in your life?

Originally Posted by Abel

John
According to Roget's II New Thesaurus, "pleased" and "happy" are synonymous. God is pleased (happy) with our faith and obedience. Whether or not He is happy in knowing the future is irrelevant.

Remember: Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Originally Posted by xxkayxx

You can be "pleased" about something, but still be a generally unhappy person.

Originally Posted by Abel

We're not talking about a person; we're talking about God. With our finite minds, we cannot understand more about Him than what He has revealed about Himself through scripture. So it is a waste of time to wonder if God is happy about knowing the future, because He didn't say.

We only need to be concerned with how we can please Him according to the Scriptures.

Originally Posted by xxkayxx

"concerned with how we can please him"

riiiiiightttttttt.........shouldn't we be more concerned with how we treat others, instead of something we don't even know to actually exist?

Originally Posted by john76

I agree with Abel. We can't know any more about God than what is revealed to us about Zeus in ancient Greek religious writing. He liked to turn into stuff and knock up the maidens! Oh yeah!