Even though He made use of your vocal cords and gave you words that will live with you for the rest of your life, is there the slightest possibility you misremembered them? Could he possibly have said “battle between good and evil…”?
God and His heavenly family are good people battling this evil condition known as hell. The active Christian plays a role by battling lies with the truth.
Are God and his family battling good and evil, or just evil? Please refer back to your own(I mean God’s) original quote that came from your own vocal cords.
I have made no error in quoting Him. There are dark, unseen forces at play here as well.
Then your god has cannot parse a sentence.
edited to add-“dark, unseen forces”??
Seriously? We should believe people who say they saw spirit orbs because they’re every bit as reliable as people who say they saw UFOs? Is that actually what you’re saying?
You find UFO eyewitness accounts generally ‘compelling’?
I don’t think this contributes positively to your credibility in the way that perhaps you think it does.
Do you even understand what Czarcasm’s point is in reference to this statement?
“battle against good and evil” is not a phrase that makes sense - not in some spiritual sense, but in plain English.
So, God is battling ‘good’ as well?
Why does GOD need to battlle ‘good’ ?
And you never have answered any of the direct questions to you -
a) given that Demons masquerade as angels of light - how do you know for certain what you saw when you were 9? (or what you see now, for that matter)
b) Why does god have to ‘battle’ evil ? isn;t he like ‘God’ and could just end evil at a sniffle?
c) If there is ‘evil’ in the world - and god created all things - who created evil?
Satan and his dominions.
In another words, not in a sense that you can understand.
Pizza delivery guys?
OK, ScottRP, you have now been posting in this thread for two full weeks.
In that time you do not appear to have persuaded anyone, (whether religious or not religious), of the facts or of the meanings of your testimony. While we do allow witnessing in this forum, we prefer that it have a point. If you have not made your point in two weeks, you will probably never succeed in making it.
At this point, believers are avoiding this thread; non-believers are posting just to mock your statements. Whatever you hoped to accomplish two weeks ago, you have either already accomplished it or have failed so utterly that you will never succeed on this board.
And while we do tolerate witnessing, we do not condone the use of this board as a site for personal blogging.
You need to either make your point very swiftly or simply retire from the thread, having accomplished whatever it was you intended.
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Yes. And mint jelly is near the canned goods section.
The More You Know…
My work on this thread is finished. Thank you tomndebb.
You’re right. i cannot understand why God would be fighting against both good and evil.
Or against Trilobites…
He’s omnipotent. Why would he need to “battle” evil? He could just say, “No more of that,” and there would be no more of that. Why is this omnipotent bloke so incredibly weak?
Perhaps it is Man who is so strong as to defy the Will of God? Or is God just playing with us for His own entertainment? “All the world’s a stage …”
Some parting words of advice for the OP:
I know and meet people who are shining examples of Christianity. They are generous, helpful, self-sacrificing and honest. They didn’t have to testify about orbs, fanciful visions, or magical fairy tales to convince anyone of their love of God, Jesus, and their fellow man. When you think you can impress your Christian credentials by blabbing about unverifiable UFO stories, it won’t fly. Those who can think and reason won’t buy it, and those of the same faith who beware of liars won’t either.
There is a beautiful description of that idea: God the Novelist.
God the Father is the author of the novel.
God the Son is the protagonist of the novel.
God the Holy Spirit is the sense of identification that the author has for the protagonist.
Most writers know this sense. George Lucas has it for Luke Skywalker, and Stephen Spielberg has it for Indiana Jones. This is how we can love our characters deeply – even love them as a part of ourselves – and still do really horrible things to them.
Still, if my life is supposed to be an example of this, I think the first draft needs some heavy copy-editing!