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Three Questions for God
#41
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 21, 2016 at 2:32 pm)Time Traveler Wrote: Okay, I'll play...
Again, not God just approximating a response based off what I've read and experienced.

Quote:1) Actually, my eyes are open, and I don't see you O' Lord. Are you saying you are indeed visible between about 390 to 700nm on the electromagnetic spectrum which is the typical range detectable by human eyes? Or are you speaking in abstruse, meaningless metaphors again?

If you lack wisdom or understanding of a metaphor then why do you not ask?
To "see" even in the English can also mean to understand a process or to know how something works beyond what you can physically see. EG: can you 'see' how that would work, Can you see why "X" Is important. So then why assume we are speaking about reflected light? Even if we were, why assume you were pointed in the right direction with in the correct proximity of what is to be physically seen? What if I told you both were possible if you were simply humble enough to Ask Seek and knock for what to physically look for and understand?

Quote:1a) So, let me rephrase... why wait to reveal yourself when doing so sooner could have ended numerous deaths in which people 'sifted' themselves based upon their understanding of your abstruse, meaningless metaphors?
Because Death is the seal, or can be absolute expression of one's beliefs if one is willing to die for what they believe.
That's what this life is all about. Ie. So that you may prove to your self where your determination and alliance lies outside the immediate known Glory of God.

Meaning if you were made unaware and uninfluenced by God's Glory would you choose to serve God and Love God without direct knowledge of reward or fear of self preservation. Or will you choose to serve self or your fellow man? will you only choose to serve God out of a sense of reward as some believe or do you only serve out of a sense of self preservation? or can you from a cold start seek out and obtain the Love required to serve with all of your being simply because God asked you to?

This life is not about meeting a specific religious standard, but rather a test to see what you do with what God gives you. (parable of the talents.)

(April 21, 2016 at 9:45 am)Drich Wrote: 2)None are 'right,' only sure of themselves.
Quote:One might consider this a dodge of the question,
I gave a direct answer of exactly what you asked.

Quote:but certainly you would never do such a thing, O Almighty One!
If you see a 'dodge' then perhaps it is you who does not fully understand what you've asked, and therefore do not fully understand the depth of the answer given. Which begs the question why do you still not ask if you do not understand?

Quote:So, given that none of these people are 'right', please explain what is the right way to think about evolution?

I would simply ask, What in your mind preludes both the creation account and the evolutionary account from happening at the same time?


Quote:I thought your style was to wipe everyone out with global floods in order to thin the herd, save for a handful of ark-building zookeepers.
Your confused, Those who were wiped out in the flood were beyond any evil you know of today. The windpipe thing was to eliminate an over stock of D-bags who drink beer in church/Being school about God.
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#42
RE: Three Questions for God
1. Why did you make the universe look identical to one that seems to have come about without your input?

2. Why do the texts that are supposed to depict you, all seem to depict you as an immoral a-hole?

3. Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why didn't you see that one coming?

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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#43
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 21, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: 1. Why did you make the universe look identical to one that seems to have come about without your input?

2. Why do the texts that are supposed to depict you, all seem to depict you as an immoral a-hole?

3. Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why didn't you see that one coming?

1. It was like that when I got here.

2. I didn't write any of that shit.

3. See above Tongue
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#44
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 18, 2016 at 12:34 pm)robvalue Wrote: I don't know really.

1) Where have you been?

2) What are you doing here now?

3) What's the point of all this?

Not God, just a guesstimate of what He would say:

1) Right next to you.

2) Waiting for you to respond to my invitation

3) To prove to yourself what you would do with my invitation outside of my known Glory.
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#45
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 18, 2016 at 5:04 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: 1. Why do you make people have a different set of sexual urges than the norm, and then punish them for acting according to their nature?
2. What's the point of making disabled people?
3. Why are so many of your most devout followers mouth-breathing yokels who don't know their own asses from a hole in the ground?
Again, not God, but he might respond..

1.) Not punishing for sex. I am punishing unrepentant sin. Would it surprise you to know There are Homosexuals in Heaven? It's not about measuring up to a given standard but seeking the atonement offered because you can't.

2.)You are all disabled to one degree or another, what makes you think your disability makes it any easier or Harder from an eternal perspective than one You would take pity on? In other words one man's disability can be anothers advantage.

3.) Is case in point with what you deem a 'disability.' You see yourself as an intellectually superior to a yokels/intellectually disabled. Yet they seem to have found what you and all your self worship can not. Salvation. They find it because it is easier to be humble when you do not know. It's harder when you think you know everything.
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#46
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 18, 2016 at 5:23 pm)Cecelia Wrote: 1. How can I become God?

2. How can I defeat you?

3. If you can't answer the first two questions (without saying you can't), you aren't really omniscient are you?

Again not God... But a 4 year old could point out that God does not have to give you what you want to give you an answer.

1) you cant

2) You Can't

3) You have your answers, and all is well with Creation.
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#47
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 18, 2016 at 7:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 1.  Who do my shoes never fit quite right?

2.  Should I get this thing lanced, or try medication first?

3.  George Burns, Morgan Freeman, Alanis Morrisette - who's closest?

Boru

Morgan Freeman
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#48
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 21, 2016 at 10:04 am)Chad32 Wrote: Which god are you?
Is there a holy book that accurately describes what you are as an individual?
How am I supposed to know it when I see it?
The God of the bible

The Bible

It says "The Bible" on it.
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#49
RE: Three Questions for God
Interesting how the only 'answers' forthcoming are from someone fantasising how this god might think whilst admitting that they're not in a position to speak for it. I wonder why that is?
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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#50
RE: Three Questions for God
(April 21, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: 1. Why did you make the universe look identical to one that seems to have come about without your input?

2. Why do the texts that are supposed to depict you, all seem to depict you as an immoral a-hole?

3. Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why didn't you see that one coming?
Again... Not God But He is what He might say:

1. How do you know what a universe without My input? If I Am the God of this universe then would it not stand to reason that I put into place all of the processes you are describing?

2. Because as Drich pointed out your pop morality has changed the standard of right and wrong. You do this so you can live and dewell in the evil I asked you to repent of. This in turn makes your evil good and my good evil. I even make mention of this fact in Revelation.

3.What in your small little mind makes you think I didn't? The tree of Knowledge represents choice, or rather an opportunity to choose my will or your own. If you want to live in my Creation then you will play by my rules. If you choose to do your own thing then I will send you to oblivion (the nothingness from which you came so that you may call into existence whatever you like with all the power and authority you think you can muster.)
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