And the gospel according to Conservian? If I’m wrong in my assessment, feel free to point it out.
You have spoken on his behalf various things in this thread including what makes God happy. First determine if God exists, then you can decide on what attributes he has. It seems to vary with everyone claiming to know him on a more intimate level.
Examples? Or will this be another thing you’re incapable of not following up on much like the thread title and everything else brought up thus far.
Okay, in the gospels, Jesus says one must change and become as a child in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. How did you go about that change? In the epistles, Paul says, “We are fools for Christ’s sake.” Elsewhere,“God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe." Is that what attracted you to it?
It’s good to know that “God is not the author of confusion” and that over 35,000 different Protestant sects (and growing) of Christianity have a good understanding of it all.
Which leads to a difficult question. The various christian sects claim the same god but apply specs and requirements that point to differing versions of that god. If one were to be convinced to believe in the lutheran god, would one in fact believe then in the baptist god? Or the catholic god? The mormon god? The salafist god? How would one resolve these conflicts?
So incapable of follow-up it will be. You are long on accusation, short on substance.
But apparently not as “short” as your own memory appears to be - post #124.
Any serious attempt at “follow-up” after an addmission like that would be a 'fool’s errand.
[QUOTE= Romans 2:1]
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
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hmmm, seems appropriate for your sign off Conservian…
Perhaps you should have quoted 6-11
[QUOTE=Romans 2:6-11]
6** God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[a] 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism.**
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Anyone with half a brain has asked, who/what am I? Philosophical millennia of pondering the subject has but returned the question, who’s asking? lol.
The obvious answer is, me. So, who/what me be?
That said, let me metaphorically speculate on our origin and what we are. Remember, all words are, by definition, metaphors. Words are symbols that have no meaning without subjective interpretation. Metaphorically, make of this what you will. Ahem.
There is God and only God, Alpha and Omega. In It is all Creation. It is It’s Will that Creation share All It Is. In this, God has no choice. Otherwise, It simply wouldn’t be Itself. Thus we, by metaphorical definition, are It
Yet, there are many doubters (blasphemers) among us. Well-meaning, yet occasionally mean-spirited, we walk a seeming path thru a myriad of happenstance, some happy and some not so. We spend our days planning our futures based on a past we call our anthropical legacy. Good luck.
The seeming obstacle to honest seekers of truth is …
Want to hear more, comment. I am not beyond encouragement.
And just how is that insincere? You might have to take up the fool’s errand with Paul. Let me refresh your memory as well of what I said in that post, and with what you followed with. I said in that post I have no desire to be a believer in “any faith system, whatsoever" and can’t find any compelling reason to do so, and a hell of a lot of reasons not to. Stay with me now….You stated you don’t even have a mustard seed of faith, but if you did, you’d be able to cast a mountain into the sea. When I asked you if your religion used any logic whatsoever, you replied in post # 183, that it depended on whose logic I was referring too. Now this I would be interested in, and since you state you don’t even have a mustard seed of faith, this got my attention. But how many times were you asked about this logic system, and each time you went crawfishing instead?
I’m not sure if you’re saying ‘everything is god’ or ‘everyone is god’ or ‘you (you, jsutter) is god’ or what…
If ‘everything’ or ‘everyone’ is a ‘god’ - then there is nothing unique/specail/descriptive about your ‘god’ that makes it stand out as believable…
In the immortal words of
[QUOTE=Syndrome]
Oh, I’m real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I’ll give them heroics. I’ll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I’m old and I’ve had my fun, I’ll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone’s super…
[chuckles evilly]
no one will be.
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so, since its incomprehensible, and you leave a cliffhanger - you’re not very convincing at all.
If you stuck with your earlier stance (christian gnosticism, for whatever that is) - it made more sense - but still isn’t something that is very convincing since its a mish mash of various beliefs.
Don’t muse. Nobody asked you to muse. You were asked to address the OP.
Really? So all these people have been wasting their time when the “obvious answer is, me”. Thank you Professor jsutter for the enlightenment.
So you really have no intention of addressing the OP, do you?
No. Words definitely have meaning. I can look them up in different dictionaries and they all pretty much have the same definition. Where we get into trouble is when people decide they are far too clever to be constrained by the generally agreed upon meaning of words and language. As a result, we get is this…
QED.
p.s. It’s “myriad happenstance” not “a myriad of”, never “a myriad of” anything. Look it up in a dictionary.
We don’t need luck. We need whatever it is you’ve been inhaling to even hope to understand this.