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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 9:16 am
(November 2, 2013 at 4:37 am)GodsRevolt Wrote: Doesn't care?
He said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 5 - The Beatitudes
It sounds to me like he holds those people in the highest regards.
How have we segued into talking about a book? We were discussing gods.
(November 2, 2013 at 5:11 am)GodsRevolt Wrote: What's the photographer doing in this picture? I mean, besides taking the picture.
There is no photographer in that picture. Now there's a metaphor for you!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 9:36 am
"God works in mysterious ways." Heh, the mistake here is thinking that there's even a god doing work.
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 10:05 am
One thing I was referred a lot as a chrisitan when struggling, the story of Job.....check this out
Iin a quick summary, Job was a guy who was super faithful to the Lord, then god made a bet with satan (lol?) that if Job's life wasn't so blessed, he wouldn't be so faithful......So God said "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED"
and killed his family, his livestock, etc, gave him bodily sickness, and Job was super faithful the whole time, but he was only human, so when it came to the point where he broke and was like "why god???".....God yelled at him for losing his faith....
on the plus side, he gave him back his wealth and house and stuff....but not his family, they got to stay dead.
This story is told a lot to people in the Christian community who suffer from depression, or just struggle in general.....
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 2:01 pm
There's a thread about job, baby.
Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 5:03 pm
So, if we are addressing the problem of evil (which assumes the existence of a God, otherwise how could He be so careless?) I can talk about God and Pain, but I cannot bring up heaven, which would be the philosophies presentation of the end of all pain, or what God said in regards to suffering and pain.
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 5:14 pm
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 5:17 pm
There is only suffering because God made suffering possible, and he would only do that if he enjoys suffering, because there is no such thing as necessity for an omnipotent and omniscient being.
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 6:59 pm
Apparently heaven would be being locked in a room with Belinda Carlisle.
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 7:03 pm
(November 2, 2013 at 6:59 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Apparently heaven would be being locked in a room with Belinda Carlisle.
Those be fightin' words. 
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RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 8:38 pm
(November 2, 2013 at 4:37 am)GodsRevolt Wrote: (November 1, 2013 at 11:15 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: No, he just doesn't seem to care that people are starving in areas of the world where food doesn't grow or that people get painful, incurable diseases.
Doesn't care?
He said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 5 - The Beatitudes
It sounds to me like he holds those people in the highest regards.
so in other words, a child whom inherits great wealth but proves himself to be the most proverbial Christian possible is lower than a impoverished boy whom dies by the age of 7 due to starvation believing in a pantheon of gods? Twisting things myself I may admit, but too much of the scriptures point out bias towards groups. It's ok to murder children under the age of accountability. It's ok to force a king to subdue his people to countless plauge based on pride (which the Hebrew god invented), its ok to lie and say "you have the will to choose" and then turn around saying how Lucifer, the fall, the Tribulations and the great white throne judgment was all according to plan and sealed in fate. It's ok that dictators pillage, rape, destory and slaughter countless millions because "god knows best". It's ok that hundreds of thousands die to desiese and slavery to the sudden invasion of Europeans of the native Americans. It's all ok. Mysterious ways indeed. "sigh"
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