Don’t forget the fact that the English Channel was exceptionally calm during the Dunkirk evacuation.
God and I have something in common: We’re both really into World War II. If He had stopped Hitler in the first place, it would’ve ruined all that cool history.
You are clearly not up on the Bible and religious logic. Anything bad is the result of the devil, anything good is the result of God. Anything you believe in is supported somewhere in the Bible (in clear English) and anything you disagree with is prohibited by the Bible. The wonderful thing is that it remains true regardless of what positions you hold. It is truly a miracle.
What is the devil the result of?
A reply to a reply of a Kanicbird post. Just quoting the reasonable reply did not really give much context of Kanicbirds’s original post I’m afraid.
Naw, I wasn’t whooshed; I was just hoping you’d give your best Kanicbird answer.
I read your post as “What the devil was that a result of?” :smack:
Dramatic necessity. What good would Star Wars be without Darth Vader?
“Luke, I am you Father (and Son and the Holy Ghost)”.
Time magazine claim that 92% of Americans believe in God. For me that means that 92% of Americans trust in something that doesn’t exist if to exist God must have form and substance (actually do something).
However, I do advocate for a kind of survey into exactly what God is. Those 92% should be allowed to describe exactly what their God looks like, whether it is male, female or something else. What God actually does, is it sentient or passively reflexive in response to events. To be honest, if 92% of people are going to believe in God they had better start coming up with some answers in an age in which science has made God almost entirely irrelevant. God is most untrustworthy concept.
It might very well be that 92% of Americans believe in several thousand different “Gods”.
The second stanza of our national Anthem says"And thus be our motto, in God is our trust", but in reality people don’t really trust in God, if they did there wouldn’t be any wars, use of medicines, or a need to pray, they would just trust that God is taking care of things and accept whatever happened!
Our founding fathers lived in state run or religious run countries, and in their wisdom had Separation of Church and State to protect the state from religion and religion from the state, so the freedom to believe one belief is protected from another, and the state can’t stop a person from practicing their religion, or forcing it on another. Protecting the minority from the majority.
Can you prove it is God, or just your belief?
Since God was to have created the devil, then it was God’s choice to have evil exist,as I see it that could mean God loves to watch people destroyed by evil. If not why did he allow Satan (or evil) to exist?
I like to think that Yah does not want the saccharine adoration of the masses. The existance of evil serves to separate the sincere and the non-sincere. Now of course Yah would know this anyway; but being a fair judge, he may desire that the non-sincere be convicted in their own hearts as well, therefore some mechanism is desired to do the sorting, so that when the wicked stand in judgment, they see their own wickedness for themselves and condemn themselves. I know I will not be able to look at Him when I’m being judged and not confess my own wickedness. There will be no delusions at judgment and everyone will know their own score.
Satan serves as this mechanism. He’s the equivalent of a prosecutor (and a bad prosecutor who engages in all sorts of misconduct) while Yehushua is likened to defense counsel. Rejecting Yehushua is sort of like firing your defense counsel when your defense counsel has a 100% win rate; it’s like firing Gerry Spence as your lawyer, even though he’s guaranteed to win for you even though you are in fact guilty.
If a judge is indeed all knowing, why have a defense or prosecution?
I think I explained that already. So that the judgment does not appear arbitrary and capricious to the one judged; so that the judged convict themselves and cast their delusions aside. So that all things are known.
Judgment does not just concern Yah, but all of us, and particularly the one judged.
Since the bit you quoted is actually a line from Handel’s “Messiah”, can I count you as a fellow fan of Handel? How do you feel about Carl Orff? “Carmina Burana” is pretty much tied for first with “Messiah” in my book, but takes a different position on “God’s” relationship to us (or US). Let’s take this argument into really abstract territory! Everybody wins! Or maybe loses.
Which demonstrates that no matter your political point of view, the US Congress does NOT speak for you, even if you voted for them. Nor does the media outlet you prefer.
I’m (not really) surprised to find someone who’s surprised by this fact.
There are no gods.
What Congress meant is the white Christian religious imaginary entity they worship.