The emotions

 

EMOTIONS STARTED AS
QUICK-DECISION-ENGINES
IN GOD

 

Emotions-structures began as:

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            quick-decision engines
            for making complex decisions

            pre-set impulse multipliers, or magnifiers,
            pre-set by the mind,

            that God built, inside himself, for himself.

 

God’s . mental-model-of-everything . . is unimaginably large.
Human . mental-model-of-everything . is tiny.
Large brained animal . mental-etc  . . . . is tiny & fragmented.
Small brained animal . mental-etc  . . . . is very tiny & fragmented.
Perhaps see the earlier webpages of this site, all about evolution.


Hence the need for quick-decision engines
is:
            colossal – for God
            tiny – for a human
            smaller still – for a large brained animal
            even smaller – for a small brained animal.

 

Hence, in animals:
            emotions-structures
            remain little more than quick-decision engines.

Whereas, in humans, and in God:
            emotions-structures
            have became much more than
            quick-decision engines.

                       In humans, many emotions-processes
                       are generated:
                                   For no other reason
                                   than for the sake of it.
                                   For no practical reason.
                                   Are toys, not tools.

                       Indeed, God, and humans:
                                   Create infinitely more structures & processes
                                   than animals do.
                                   Way beyond what’s necessary.

 

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            If your heart/spirit believes the gospel
            then your heart/spirit renews your mind.

            Your renewed mind then pre-sets your emotions:
                       so that you love everyone
                       with a love that is an emotion,
                       an emotion amongst the other emotions.

 

 

            Mind you, you don’t need the emotion called love
            in order to love people with agape love.

            But you (probably) do need a renewed mind
            in order to love people with agape love.

            Hence Peter, though psychopathic, incapable of empathy
            and therefore incapable of the emotion called love,
            nevertheless eventually had agape love for others.

            It was throughout his mind
            rather than merely in his emotions.

            As, indeed, it will eventually have to be
            for any Christian.

,         ,         See the two cells (starting To conclude, the apostle Peter,)
,         ,         of later section: MORE ABOUT PETER, PAUL, & PSYCHOPATHY.
,         ,         (This link does not open a new tab.)

 

 

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MIND AND EMOTIONS

 

 

In unbelievers:

            The world and your flesh
            have moulded your mind.

            Your mind then pre-sets your emotions.

            Hence your heart/spirit
            is in charge of nothing.

 

 

In believers, i.e. believers who have renewed their minds:

            Your heart/spirit
            has moulded your mind.

            Your mind then pre-set your emotions.

            Hence your heart/spirit
            is in charge of everything.

 

 

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DO THE EMOTIONS NEED RENEWING?

 

 

Of the three parts of the soul (mind, cultures, & emotions)
only mind & cultures need renewing.
See earlier section: ABOUT CULTURES 
and
diagram in later section: WILL. ,,,,,

            Emotions don’t need renewing:
                       they are pre-set by the mind,
                       are mere tools of the mind.

 

 

,         ,         ,         ,         Perhaps see first cell
,         ,         ,         ,         of earlier section: WHAT IS A RENEWED MIND: SOME DETAILS,
,         ,         ,         ,         and the links within it.
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I write about the emotions
in the first two sections of the next webpage too.

 

 

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