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Why did God create the universe?
RE: Why did God create the universe?



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RE: Why did God create the universe?
(June 25, 2012 at 11:16 pm)Godschild Wrote: I've never seen the world called flat in scripture, please show me .

Here you go!

Luke 4:4

Then the devil, taking him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

The only way you could see "all the kingdoms of the world" from a mountaintop would be if the world was flat.

Now I'm sure you'll be tell me this isn't what the passage means....
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.

God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
(June 5, 2012 at 3:42 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Pretty simple question that I've never gotten an answer to while I was a Christian. For what reason did God create the universe? Did he have a reason? Did he need to create the universe?

I was taught he created us to praise him. What an egotistical ass.
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
Easy questions, easy answers.





Lonely creator gods, requiring love and praise aren't really egotistic, they're just sad.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
(June 26, 2012 at 4:22 pm)Thor Wrote:
(June 25, 2012 at 11:16 pm)Godschild Wrote: I've never seen the world called flat in scripture, please show me .

Here you go!

Luke 4:4

Then the devil, taking him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

The only way you could see "all the kingdoms of the world" from a mountaintop would be if the world was flat.

Now I'm sure you'll be tell me this isn't what the passage means....

You are trying to explain the power of two beings so powerful you could not begin to understand. Your cue should have been, "in a moment in time."
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
Now all you need to do is provide evidence that two such beings actually existed.

We'll wait.
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
He was bored.
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
(June 27, 2012 at 4:18 pm)Godschild Wrote: You are trying to explain the power of two beings so powerful you could not begin to understand.

Uh.... no, I'm not. You asked for a scriptural reference where the Earth is shown to be flat. I provided one. Now you need to twist yourself into a pretzel to rationalize it away.

Quote: Your cue should have been, "in a moment in time."

Oh, so "in a moment in time" the Earth was flat?
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.

God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
(June 27, 2012 at 4:29 pm)Thor Wrote:
(June 27, 2012 at 4:18 pm)Godschild Wrote: You are trying to explain the power of two beings so powerful you could not begin to understand.

Uh.... no, I'm not. You asked for a scriptural reference where the Earth is shown to be flat. I provided one. Now you need to twist yourself into a pretzel to rationalize it away.

Quote: Your cue should have been, "in a moment in time."

Oh, so "in a moment in time" the Earth was flat?

By this time the Greeks established that the world was spherical, being well versed in Greek he would have known this.
I thought you were smart, guess you like causing controversy, instead of being rational.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Why did God create the universe?
By this time the greeks had established that gods where embellished ancestor stories. Being well versed in greek, blah blah blah.

The authors of your fairy tales didn't believe that either, so why should they believe in a spherical earth? Sounds like bullshit pagan blasphemy to me.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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