You, I like!
(Twice? Ah, to be young again!)
Sorry to disappoint you but none of those are my beliefs.
You misinterpret everything on purpose. When you get serious good things will happen.
Or maybe being serious is unknown to you.
Well, to be fair to you, those are the only logical possibilities.
No they are not. I have said over and over again. My belief is unconditional love and my God is unconditional love. They most powerful thing in the world is unconditional love. Do it and you will understand.
ENOUGH!
No more off-topic comments about near death experiences
and
No more tongue-in-cheek suggestions that another poster should go out and experience death.
Stick to the topic–as mushy as it is–and leave the side topics out of it.
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[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:110, topic:663422”]
How many Christian churches do you know of that do not teach that Wiccans and other Pagans are evil and bound for hell? How many Islamic temples teach that Jews are good people?
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First Congregational Church in Memphis, for one. And then…
Um, I’ll get back to you. Do Unitarians count?
I love it…god gets all the credit but none of the blame. Are you blaming the tsunamis and famines and earthquakes that kill millions on man? But yet if one survives s/he credits the invisible man in the sky
So god’s transmitter is so weak it can’t cut through my bad mood?
In the sense you answered this, one could pray to a carrot, if what they wanted happened, they could say;" carrot heard my prayer", if not they could say;" carrot said no". Hardly a good answer for a Being who is supposed to be a good father who knows all things ahead of time. A good parent doesn’t make it’s child beg for necessities nor give any thing that would bring them harm, no matter how much they begged. a human parent doesn’t have that knowledge they can only guess.
That is your belief and it works for you, for some it doesn’t, both have the right to their own thoughts and beliefs. It proves nothing about a god. Some see truth as the most powerful thing and without truth there would not be love, for there are many interpretations of what Love is.
I, for one, welcome our new Carrot overlords - shredded be thy name.
Without love there could be no truth.
It does work for everyone who chooses love.
It won’t work for those who don’t.
Tommy Syndrome.
A silly statement, the two have nothing to do with one another. If anything love tends to be associated with lies and self delusion, not truth.
Come on man READ BETWEEN the lines.
Okie
To God goes all the blame, lets see we live in a world that prayer is offered to God a gazillion time a day. We are about to have nuclear war so ain’t God good? When will the lying preacher boy wake up and smell the roses?
Okie
That is news to me, Are you from Oklahoma signing Okie
At each church I have attended regularly, there has been no teaching about Wiccans and Pagans. (That’s three different denominations.) I have been taught in all three that I’m in no position to judge someone else’s redemptive status or personhood.
These churches practice love doing such things as raising money for the Food Harvest Bank, sending warm clothing to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and comforting those who are in pain. I couldn’t begin to list them all.
BTW, one of the denominations speaks of “Father-Mother God.” I think I saw every reference here referring to God as “him.” I don’t think that “Father-Mother God” is that much more accurate, but it was a nice change.
Most atheists I’ve known have taken a “live and let live” attitude. It’s rare that I see Christians here bad-mouthing atheists either. I do see a lot of criticism from atheists who post here who find that the best attack is ridicule or absolutely false claims about most Christians. On the other hand, some of the atheists here are very fair in their comments.
As for the question about God “letting” a little girl drown: Death is often ugly, sad, and frightening from this side. sometimes. Maybe in the long run, it’s a good thing. (I’m not saying that that is God’s reasoning.) I would not be alive if several people had not died: My maternal great-grand mother’s first husband, my paternal grandfather’s first wife, my paternal grandmother’s first husband, and my grandfather’s first wife. All of these deaths caused a lot of pain and grief. There’s no way that my life could make up for that kind of pain. But I do some good in the world and my death shall come too. I don’t see that as a bad thing.
What the hell are you on about? :smack: